"I tame hope” – reading with Suleman Taufiq
15. November a 19:00 - 20:30
FreeSuleman Taufiq from Aachen is a German-Syrian author and is known as a poet, storyteller and translator of Arabic literature. Born in 1953, Taufiq spent his childhood in Damascus before studying philosophy and comparative literature in Germany in 1971 after graduating from high school. His first volume of poetry in German was published in 1978. He has lived as a freelance writer in Aachen since 1972. His work now includes more than 36 titles. In addition to poems, novels, stories and essays, he writes stories for children and translates Arabic works into German, as well as numerous German poets into Arabic. He also worked for various radio stations.
Suleman Taufiq received the Literature Prize of the City of Aachen in 1983 and is a two-time scholarship holder from the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Culture. In 2015 he was nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize and he is a member of the PEN Center Germany
Suleman Taufiq received the Literature Prize of the City of Aachen in 1983 and is a two-time scholarship holder from the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Culture. In 2015 he was nominated for the European CIVIS Radio Prize and he is a member of the PEN Center Germany
This evening, Suleman Taufiq will read from his two books: “Josef has a birthday” (story) and from the book of poems “I tame hope” and then discuss with the audience.
In his writing, Suleman Taufiq moves in both cultures, the German and the Arabic. On his literary forays we meet people who find themselves between two different cultures. His literature is a bridge between cultures - which cannot be so foreign to each other. In his texts he takes us into a wonderful foreign world, a world with all its transience, excess, changeability, imponderability, on a poetic journey between places, languages and times.
Taufiq uses literature for what she originally wants: to get to know the other, to experience their strangeness and fascination with pleasure. For him, foreign lands are a place of encounter and development. But the lyrics are also a kind of love declaration to the stranger, which becomes more and more familiar over time.
In his writing, Suleman Taufiq moves in both cultures, the German and the Arabic. On his literary forays we meet people who find themselves between two different cultures. His literature is a bridge between cultures - which cannot be so foreign to each other. In his texts he takes us into a wonderful foreign world, a world with all its transience, excess, changeability, imponderability, on a poetic journey between places, languages and times.
Taufiq uses literature for what she originally wants: to get to know the other, to experience their strangeness and fascination with pleasure. For him, foreign lands are a place of encounter and development. But the lyrics are also a kind of love declaration to the stranger, which becomes more and more familiar over time.
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