Description

Farokhzad was not just an elegiac poet who dreamily and mournfully traced the contours of native minarets. There are other poems - about the divided Berlin, about the dictatorship - that show him as a committed poet. Poetically, Farokhzad deals with "anti-poetry" themes, and this eye for the political-social gives his language an unexpected topicality, both in the Shah period and after the Iranian revolution.

Freydoun Farokhzad was born in Tehran in 1936 and murdered in Bonn on August 3, 1992. He studied political science in Munich and published poems in German newspapers and magazines. Martin Walser presented him in the anthology Vorzeichen 2 – Nine new German authors with eleven poems in front. He gained great popularity and popularity as a showmaster, singer, actor and poet both in Iran and in Germany. Farokhzad, who rests in Bonn's North Cemetery, is more popular today than ever. He lives on in our memory today not only as a charming personality with unforgettable works, but also as a martyr and hero.

reading sample

children's market

noise of the balloons.

The longing eyes
let yourself in him
catch.

drummers and flute players
show their glowing
moments.

Desires are slowly increasing
from the soil
and set their sails
over the hearts.

Paper kite time
those on their journey to the zenith
getting smaller and smaller.

The world is a picture book
without clouds and prohibition signs.

Children's market

The roar of balloons.

Eyes on this commotion
Are lost
Are found.

Cymbals and flute players
Your brightest moments
Have been exhibited.

wishes
Slow and quiet
They rise from the ground to the air
And the sails are raised above the hearts.

Now it's the turn of paper kites
On its flight path to the dark peak
Get smaller and smaller.

World
Illustrated book
No cloud spots
Prohibition signs.