Karim Saab was one of the most important editors of the artists’ publication ANSCHLAG, which was first printed in 1983 in Leipzig. Trained as a librarian in Leipzig, Saab later pursued a university degree in theology in Naumburg during the 1970s, becoming politically engaged during the 1980s, initiating the group Hoffnung Nicaragua. Around the time of the fall of the regime, he left the GDR and since 1992 has worked as a journalist in Potsdam.