Rezension zu „Cold War, Hot Autumn” (2025) von Sabine Schiffner Eine Kindheit in Tunesien voller Schläge und Demütigungen. Gefängnisaufenthalte wegen ihrer Reden und Gedichte, jahrzehntelanges Leben und Schreiben im Exil wegen ihrer politischen Arbeit als Feministin und Menschenrechtlerin und trotzdem drei Söhne alleinerziehend großgezogen, in einem Schriftstellerinnenleben mit viel Krankheit und Einsamkeit: Najet Adouani ist eine tunesische Schriftstellerin, Dichterin und Journalistin, die seit inzwischen fast zehn Jahren in Berlin lebt, wo sie lange Stipendiatin des Writers in Exile-Programm vom Deutschen PEN war. In ihrer

Rezension zu „Tausend Fenster” (2026) von Gerrit Wustmann Flucht, Migration und Exil sind Themen, die uns weiterhin beschäftigen werden, solange Despoten Staaten regieren und keinen Widerspruch gegen ihre Machtpolitik dulden. Deswegen sind Menschen aus Syrien nach Europa geflüchtet, deswegen kamen Menschen aus der von Russland angegriffenen Ukraine nach Deutschland, und wenn wir zulassen, dass hierzulande Rechtsextremisten Macht gewinnen, werden Menschen aus Deutschland flüchten müssen. Es sind Themen, die den 1952 in Iran geborenen und mit fünf Jahren nach Deutschland gekommenen Schriftsteller Nassir Djafari

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

A detailed review of the novel “Love in the Shadow of Dark Flags” by Halim Youssef has been published in the Musenblatt. The novel, published in German in 2025, takes up the events surrounding the attack by the so-called Islamic State on the city of Kobane in 2014 and combines historical experience with a personal, literary perspective. Youssef, who has lived in Germany for many years, talks about love, loss and resilience in times of war and existential threat. The review of Musenblatt particularly appreciates the penetrating inside view

An article about the novel “Cold War, Hot Autumn” by Najet Adouani appeared in the Maghreb Magazine. The novel, published in 2025 (translated from English by Christa Schuenke), takes readers to a Berlin apartment building in Kreuzberg - and right into life in exile. The article in the Maghreb Magazine not only sheds light on the plot of the novel, but also its social dimension. At the center is a poor, multicultural neighborhood, characterized by poverty, addiction and social insecurity - but at the same time also by moments of solidarity,

The author Widad Nabi (“Taking Roots”) spoke in the conversation at the Literaturhaus Wiesbaden Support Association about her writing between languages, about motherhood and the question of belonging. The reason for the interview is, among other things, the award of her poem “A Continent Called Body” with the renowned Premio Internazionale Camaiore and the publication of her current volume of essays. In the interview, Widad Nabi not only talks about the surprising experience in Italy, but also about her life between Kurdish, Arabic and German. She describes how language shapes identity