On Friday, April 4th at 6:30 p.m., Suleman Taufiq will keep a bilingual reading in Arabic and German. This reading is part of the world's program, organized by the Volkshochschule Aachen. Suleman Taufiq is a German-Syrian author and known as a poet, narrator, music critic, publicist, editor and translator of Arabic literature and lives in Aachen. His first volume of poems appeared in German in 1978. In addition to poems, novels, stories, stories and essays, he writes stories for children and translates Arabic works into German and numerous…

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West-Eastern Diwan e.V. “… floating between the worlds…” with Dr. Peter Ludwig, Saarbrücken moderated by Prof. Dr. phil. Gert Sautermeister West-Eastern Diwan e.V. together with the Goethe-Gesellschaft Bremen. Violence, terror, war - in many places, societies and cultures are currently exhausted and destroyed. Completely different, the literary encounter between the great Persian poet Hafis, donated for centuries with his Diwan (14th century) and Goethe, which gains shape and expression in the poetry of his western-Eastern Divan (1819/1827). In the meantime there have been…

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On May 15th at 7:30 p.m. there will be a reading in the Haus Halchem ​​district library (Severinstraße 15, 50678 Cologne). The central theme are cheerful and backlit poems and short stories. The author of Sujet Verlags Amir Shaheen will also read. Evert Everts, Petra Reachui and Rolf Polander are also represented. Admission is free. Amir Shaheen, born 1966 in Lüdenscheid, studied German studies, English, theater, film and television science. The trained publisher is an author, editor and PR editor and writes poetry, prose, satirical and columns. Since 1989…

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West-Eastern Diwan e.V. “… floating between the worlds…” With Professor Axel Dunker The Orient still appears to many as a mythical world from a thousand and a night, a dream of wisdom, wealth and eroticism. At the same time, however, it is also a projection surface of European fears and object of power fantasies. To date, there is the idea of ​​the Orient as a “other world” in literature, in children's books, films and pictures, filled with exoticly fantastic and partly reproachful ideas and pictures. Orient images also run through the literature of the…

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