On January 31st, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. there will be an online memorial event for our author Ulrike Gies, who died in 2020. At the same time, her book Schnuffelstoff, which was published posthumously, will be read for the first time. Publisher Madjid Mohit, author Inge Buck and director of LitQ Cornelius Kopf-Finke will read texts and give speeches. Ulrike Gies was born in Dortmund in 1953 and studied sociology, journalism and philosophy in Münster. She has been a writer since 1980, initially with prose and later also with poetry. After many…

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Am 04. März um 19 Uhr findet die Eröffnung zur Sonderausstellung "Bremen spricht" statt. Moderation Dr. Bora Aksen, Musik Marcia Bittencourt 7.500 verschiedene Sprachen gibt es auf der Welt. In Bremen werden 80 davon gesprochen. Die Ausstellung „Bremen spricht“ zeigt vom 5. März bis 29. Mai welche Sprachen das sind und wo in Bremen sie gesprochen werden – von Arabisch über Plattdeutsch und Gebärdensprache bis Zulu. Anhand verschiedener extra angefertigter Karten entsteht ein aktuelles Sprachporträt Bremens. Neben den Karten gibt es auch Bücher,…

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On March 4, 2022 at 7:00 p.m., the Vienna Main Library invites you to the reading "Freedom to the Word XXXIV - A bilingual reading in German and Persian: The scent of that river", in which, in addition to Amir Shaheen, four other poets* will give their Present texts in the form of poetry and prose. They come from different cultures and geographies and transport different language images and worlds of thought. In their works, they show a poetic examination of themes such as origin, past, childhood, longing, separation, migration, exile and a wealth of languages. Included…

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