Ramy Al-Asheq
Biography
Ramy Al-Asheq is a Syrian-Palestinian poet, journalist and curator.
He has published five volumes of poetry in Arabic. His texts have been published in various anthologies and literary journals in Bosnian, German, English, French, Kurdish and Spanish. Some of his poems have been translated into songs, performances and visual arts.
In 2014, Al-Asheq received a residency grant for the Heinrich Böll House in Langenbroich. A year later he was awarded a literary prize by the Al-Qattan Foundation in Ramallah. At the end of 2017, Al-Asheq launched the German-Arab culture magazine FANN. He is also curator for the Literaturhaus Berlin and co-founder of the Arabic-German Literature Days Berlin. In 2018 he received a literary grant from the Academy of Arts in Berlin and two residency grants for the Lukas Artists' House (Arenshoop) and the Artists' Village in Schöppingen.
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memory dogs
The eponymous memory dogs carry memories into memory and thus back into the present. Memories steeped in war, pain and aching love are reanimated by the metaphorical four-legged friends, making them a constant companion in the future. Just as the experiences can no longer be ascribed to any time, the tenses used become diffuse. In his book of poems, Ramy Al-Asheq wanders from drastic images of war to past love affairs.
Translated into German by Lilian Pithan
