Review of “Cold War, Hot Autumn” (2025) by Sabine Schiffner A childhood in Tunisia full of beatings and humiliation. Jail stays because of her speeches and poems, decades of living and writing in exile because of her political work as a feminist and human rights activist and yet raising three sons alone, in a writer's life with a lot of illness and loneliness: Najet Adouani is a Tunisian writer, poet and journalist who has been living in Berlin for almost ten years, where she was a long-time scholarship holder of the German PEN's Writers in Exile program. In hers

Review of “A Thousand Windows” (2026) by Gerrit Wustmann Flight, migration and exile are topics that will continue to concern us as long as despots rule states and do not tolerate any opposition to their power politics. That's why people from Syria fled to Europe, that's why people from Ukraine, which was attacked by Russia, came to Germany, and if we allow right-wing extremists to gain power in this country, people will have to flee Germany. These are topics that concern the writer Nassir Djafari, who was born in Iran in 1952 and came to Germany at the age of five

Review Autobiography David Scrase by Wolfgang Menzel Just two days after Wilhelm Lehmann died on November 17, 1968 in Eckernförde, an obituary appeared in the London daily newspaper “The Times”. The author of the obituary, David Scrase, describes how this international recognition came about in his autobiography “Life in German”: A young English German scholar, in his late twenties, a temporary lecturer in German at Oxford and also working on his dissertation on Wilhelm Lehmann, receives a telephone call from friends in Bremen saying they had heard on the radio that Lehmann was