Founder and General Editor: Georgy Riecke. ( georgyriecke@underneaththebunker.com )
b.Hamburg 1959. In 1978, he studied under Johannes Speyer at the University of Berlin. Between 1982 and 1986, he received a grant to travel throughout Europe, intending to amass a collection of European folktales (yet to be published). In 1987 he married the Lithuanian poet Doris Boshchov and in 1989 moved to London, where he has lived ever since (though he owns several houses abroad, most notably his summer cottage outside Vladivostock). From 1989 he worked as a freelance journalist, becoming arts editor of the Cricklewood Cultural Review in 1991, a job which he occupied for only eighteen months, at which point he joined the team of aspiring critics behind ‘The New Blast!’. He left this magazine four months later, after falling out with several members of the editorial team over their reaction to a set of poems his wife had composed in honour of that year’s increased German timber production. After several months of freelance work, he co-founded Groping for Allusions in 1995, with Peggy Grounter and Javé de Lasse and remained as literary editor until 1997, whereupon he went on an extended European tour, returning to London in 2000 where, after a further successful period as a freelance critic, he set about the creation of his own cultural journal ‘Underneath the Bunker’ whose first publication appeared in 2003. Preferring to concentrate on shorter articles, he has only written one full-length critical study, his 1993 review of novels by authors whose surnames begin with the letter ‘G’ (Gogol to Galsworthy: A Rhapsody in G, Inkwell Press 1993). He is a lifelong supporter of the Hamburg football team, though he has not seen a match since 1962. See work by Riecke.  See more  Treat yourself

Arts editor: Lucia Noisenbach
b.Berlin 1964. Currently teaches Photography Studies at the Peezburger Institue in London. Writes irregular criticism for 'Underneath the Bunker'. See 'Photography in Focus'

Music editor: Matthew Taylor-Rosnik
b. Lisbon 1957. Born to a Canadian mother and a Czechoslovakian father, Tyalor-Rosnik grew up in Andalusia, where he soon became part of the thriving musical scene, playing the maracas for a flamenco-punk band from the age of five. At eight he stole across the border from musician to critic, and he has yet to return. He has written articles on every type of music, from Mongolian throat singing to Whale Mating Songs and professes to have no prejudices against any sort of music, excepting The Beatles, 'cause they're crap'. His major full-length critical works include Where did all the Lithuanian heavy metal bands go?, Carrot on Chromaticism: The History of the Vegetable Orchestra and What happened on the day I said hello to György Ligeti at the supermarket. Taylor-Rosnik interviews

            Occasional reviewer: Heidi Kohlenberg
b.Oslo 1971. Kohlenberg studied at the Sorbonne, before working as a junior reviewer for Groping for Allusions (1996 to 1998). Since then she has contributed to more than eighty literary magazines and written two full-length studies: Zut Alor! Shock tactics in Modern French Poetry 1881 – 1981 (OKart Press 1997) and The Future belongs to Norway (Hellintong 2001). The latter - a patriotic and polemical work - was co-written by her then husband Edmund Ek, from whom she divorced in 2004. Norway Fumbles the Future was recently published as a pamphlet. See work by Kohlenberg. See more.  Hit the town.

            Occasional reviewer: D H Laven
b. Melbourne 1952. Laven joined the Melbourne Institute of Arts as a student in 1970, was appointed professor later that year and was sacked four months later. From 1971 to 1980 he taught himself the discipline of art history through the perusal of things called 'books'. Laven held a position at Basel University from 1980-4, returning with a bad back to the Melbourne Institute of Arts until 1987, after which gave up lecturing to concentrate on his writing. He published his first article in 1979 and has published over three hundred since then, in various magazines. His major full-length studies include Heja Ceja! The current state of Venezuelan art (1988), Pygmy Pot-painters (1990), Baroque Modes (1991), The Great Spoon-makers of Sheffield (1993), Modernist-Post: The Dead Letter Office (1998), and Shocked to Boredom: British Art Now (2004). Since the early eighties he has been working on his magnum opus The Story of Forgotten Art, which he predicts will be published sometime around the year 2015. Laven also owns the world’s largest collection of interestingly shaped rocks, including a lump of granite that involuntarily resembles the figure of Christ from Ruben’s famous Antwerp altarpiece. See work by Laven.

            Occasioner reviewer: Caspar Nietcher
b.Geneva 1961. Studied with Georgy Riecke at the University of Berlin, before leaving to join a travelling theatre company in late 1984, of which he remained an integral part until ’85, when he returned to live with his parents in Switzerland. Over the course of the next ten years he produced no less than twelve critical studies, including Dualistic Juxtapositions within a Monolithic Motion: Marcel Champignon’s Early Work and Who ate all the paradigms? A Feast of Criticism. In 1995, he was appointed Professor of Comparative Literature at the Bern Insitute of Arts; a position he still holds, along with Visiting Professor of High culture at Toulouse. His most recent work is Priests, Puddings and Postmodernism: The New Dawn of the Displacement Device (Pigs-Will-Fly Press 2004). See work by Nietcher

            Occasional reviewer: Lassē Huwām
b. Tromsǿ 1968. Studied at the Universities of Helsinki, St.Petersburg and Montreal (under the direction of the late Finnish novelist Paavo Laami). From 1989 to the present day, he has published eight novels in Finnish, none of which have been translated. His prolific non-fictional output  includes A Neutral Culture for a Neutral State? and a collection of over a hundred articles written for the Norwegian Cultural Journal ‘Fjords’ (entitled ‘100 Articles from Fjords’). Huwām is one of the leading authorities on Scandinavian culture. He also plays the zither