"Poetics of the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 in Salem Khalfani's novel The First Days of the World (2019)” is the title of the article in question, published in the journal “Studia Litteraria”. It can be downloaded here as a PDF file.
The story behind the name Eike Wienbarg 10/18/2020 in the Weser-Kurier In three articles for the new book "Stolpersteine in Bremen - Biographical Traces - Neustadt" the Sykerin Ilse Zelle dedicates herself to the Polak family, who also lived in Weyhe. Syke/Weyhe/Bremen. The name of the Jewish-Christian Polak family is closely linked to the community of Weyhe. A street was named after Carl Polak in 1995, and his son Otto is an honorary citizen of the community. The Syker author and former teacher at the Cooperative Comprehensive School (KGS) Brinkum wrote about the life of Otto Polak
Following his reading in Steinhagen, Kerstin Panhorst published on October 13th. a review of Doğan Akhanlı's novel "Madonna's Last Dream". Many thanks to the colleagues for the positive media coverage!
Amir Shaheen's new book is reviewed in the 06/2020 issue of ROCKS magazine. Many thanks to the colleagues for the kind review!
The Iranian community is currently running the project "My Values - Your Values - Our Values", which aims to create a dialogue between migrants and non-migrants. As part of this project, the "Liter(IR)ania" talks on contemporary Iranian literature will take place. We are pleased that authors from our publishing house also took part. The conversations can be listened to as a podcast: Kurt Scharf spoke here about his newly published anthology "Stop in the night until the wine" with the most beautiful Persian poetry from the twentieth century
On the occasion of the anniversary of the right-wing extremist attack on the synagogue in Halle, our poem of the week is "The Exception" by Eberhard Pfleiderer. With clear words, a fine sense of rhythm and a lively communication between image and text, Eberhard Pfleiderer deals with the increasing shift to the right in German society in his new volume of poetry "Zwangst". Here is the link to our Facebook page
"The general becomes visible in the most individual things,” Adorno tells us. He would have appreciated, possibly used, Inge Buck's handcrafted armor against an invisible foe." It is almost expected of authors who are alive, their contribution to the pandemic that determines our present. It is not surprising that Inge Buck has also pricked up her ears, since she has long been crossing borders with her texts and offers approaches for understanding. Corona Diary is also about Inge Buck's most recent work, and his from the
A year ago, Widad Nabi's volume of poetry "Shortly before thirty, ... kiss me" was published by Sujet Verlag. We liked it so much that we have now published it again, this time as a bilingual edition with the Arabic original alongside the German translation. Widad Nabi, who herself fled from Syria to Germany and writes about her experience as a fugitive and her life in Syria and Germany, is a real "rising star" of the local poetry scene. Check out the exciting interviews linked on their author page
Fabian Schefold's "Herr A- Arbeitsgeschichten" is a volume of humorous short stories about everyday working life. Especially on gray days like these, it's easy to smile with Fabian Schefold's observations on the absurdity of everyday working life. A senior doctor, who can only show that he has dropped out of his German studies, takes on cases where the specialists are at a loss and a personality styling manager advises people who are looking for work on their character. When reading, one often wonders whether these professions were invented by Schefold or actually exist -
The work of art by Inge Buck and Gunther Gerlach, which was recently published by us, is presented in this video contribution by the colorful and binnen again in a compact and visually appealing way. It tells of the observations from a very strange time... Click here to view the colorful and internal contribution. Have lots of fun with it!
»These dialogues with plenty of situation comedy provoked the audience in KuBa to constantly recurring laughter. […] The German author chose the humorous and exaggerated presentation of his autobiographical experiences instead of pointing fingers.« Silvia Jagodzinska, Aachener Nachrichten, September 10, 2020
In the Weser-Kurier-Edition from 20.08. A positive review of Inge Buck's new publication "I'd rather die than not kiss" was published under the heading "Books in Conversation" (to our great delight!). A big thank you goes to the author!
"A native of Altaen on the subject of migration" - in a small interview with Marie Veele, author Amir Shaheen reveals interesting details about his new novel "I'm not a foreigner, my name is just that" to his dear readers and also comments on the currently much-discussed topic of racism and related police violence. Link to the article: https://www.come-on.de/lennetal/altena/ich-kein-auslaender-heisse-autor-amir-shaheen-berichtet-ueber-sein-neues-buch-thema-migration-13819258. html
Today we would like to draw your attention to a thought-provoking article that appeared some time ago in the humanistic! magazine (issue 02/2020). Forugh Farrochsād, of whom we published German translations of her poems in 2018, is described here as Iran's most important modern poet. Her work ruthlessly holds up a mirror to the society of her country of origin, breaking a number of taboos in the process. The article reminds us in detail of the life story of a brave and at the same time very tragic figure in Iranian literary history. Published by Forough Farrochsād in Sujet Verlag:
It was a great honor for us to welcome Doğan Akhanlı to Bremen yesterday! Not only with excerpts from his novel "Madonna's Last Dream", but also with stories and anecdotes from his personal life, he fascinated us and moved us deeply.
Under the title "Poetry in memory and present", the two Syrian authors Ramy Al-Asheq (memory dogs) and Widad Nabi (about thirty, ...kiss me) read from their works for us last Thursday as part of the Funun Festival. The evening was moderated by Jasmina Heritani, with Aladdin Haddad providing the musical accompaniment. The poems were recited in two languages, Arabic and German. Afterwards there was an exciting conversation with the audience about the personal experiences of the two poets with their old and new homeland,
As part of "Bremen reads!" Last Friday we had a really comfortable time at our publishing house. Shirin Nowrousian, Inge Buck and Gunther Gerlach read from their lyrical works. The publisher Madjid Mohit sat with them on the sofa, did the Persian translation of some of the poems and provided musical interludes in between. In this compilation, very different styles, tones, rhythms and languages, music and lyrics met and resulted in a completely new sound. The living room was full. It was a mixed bag
Doğan Akhanlı, author of "Madonna's Last Dream", is many things: winner of the Goethe Medal 2019, Turkish descent, German citizen, political activist, armed only with the word. Also, he travels a lot these days. He has experienced and suffered a lot and has a lot to say.
The poets in this collection reached their peak in the heyday of modern Persian poetry. At that time, the artistic will of the Iranians concentrated on poetry in a way that we can hardly imagine, and in a pre-modern society that meant verse. These poets enjoyed incredible prestige and success. They determined the intellectual climate of the time This period began in a period of only a few years without strict censorship in 1941 after the accession of the last Shah. as
The joy is huge! The freshly printed copies of the book "Madonna's Last Dream" by Doğan Akhanlı have just reached us here at the publishing house. We're thrilled to finally be able to hold it in our hands - now we're excited to share the story with you.
Doğan Akhanlı was a guest at WDR to mark the forthcoming awarding of the Goethe Medal. The conversation was about his personal past, Goethe and his influence. intercultural and international dialogue and Germany as a space for historical reflection and dialogue. The conversation also touched on the work Madonna's last dream, which was published for the first time in German on August 15th. The book, which among other things deals with the refugee ship 'Struma', is frighteningly topical today. The interview can be found here in the WDR media library:
Inge Buck gave the visitors of the book premiere of Jürg Beeler's new volume of poetry "The Birds Return" a wonderful introduction to the author's work. Here you will find a copy of the prelude to a great reading: After his last volume of poetry "In Fremdenzimmer" from Zurich's Wolfbach Verlag, new poems by Jürg Beeler have now been published by Bremen's Sujet Verlag under the title "Die Vogele zurück" (The Birds Are Returning). Jürg Beeler, born in Zurich in 1957, studied German, literary criticism and comparative literature at the Universities of Geneva, Zurich and Tübingen.
We are happy about a wonderful report in the Weser Kurier about Inge Buck's new book of poetry "Nachtwind"! Weser courier Inge Buck 05/16/2019
The NZZ am Sonntag writes about the recently published volume of poetry “Gedächtnishunde” by Ramy Al-Asheq: “The war in Syria has spread Arabic poetry all over the world. Ramy Al-Asheq (*1989) is one of the countless people who had to flee in 2011 after the suppressed protest against Bashar al-Asad. Now he lives and writes poetry in Germany and forms beguilingly unwieldy language pictures from the devastation of war and the injuries of love. In the eponymous poem “Memory Dogs”, The War in Syria spread Arabic poetry all over the world
Just arrived from the printing press: "The Old Man from the Mountains" by Habib Tengour! He is considered "one of the most powerful and imaginative poetic voices of the post-colonial francophone Maghreb" (Pierre Joris). In an equally visionary manner, Habib Tengour takes up topics in his books that only become the focus of the media years later. In Old von Berge, which he writes between 1977 and 1981, he traces religious totalitarianism, asks about the intellectual's responsibility in the face of war, corruption and ideological hardening, the suitability of religion, science and politics
The wait is finally over! We are very pleased to announce that Inge Buck's new volume of poetry, Nachtwind, has recently been published here by Sujet Verlag. Here you can get a little foretaste: Fresh snow A lot is not good, but that the fresh snow covers everything for one afternoon one evening one night The poetic miniatures are congenially accompanied by the minimalistic cartoons by Lothar Bührmann. The book premiere will take place on May 16 in the Leuwer bookstore. Look forward to
We are happy about the release of Salem Khalfani's new novel “The First Days of the World”. In it, the protagonist reports retrospectively how he found his first love in the teacher Leili as a fourth-grade student. He only becomes aware of the transitoriness of time after the long summer holidays have begun and Leili then leaves the village school forever. But he can't forget his first love. He writes (love) letters to the address of her house in Tehran several times without
The Weser-Kurier writes about the recently published youth novel "Ella and Max and the Singing Butterflies" by Monika Dietrich-Lüders: "The 13-year-old investigative duo involuntarily finds itself faced with a new case. "Ella and Max and the Singing Butterflies" is the second children's crime novel by Monika Dietrich-Lüders. While the two friends, who have known each other since first grade, only had to deal with a strange classmate in "On the Trail of the Voodoo Magician", here they meet a whole group of strange people whose peculiarities are mainly due to prejudices
