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Leseabend mit Suleman Taufiq in Minden
08.02.2018 a 19:30
Suleman Taufiq reads from his novella “Café Dunya. A day in Damascus”, which is a tribute to his hometown and a journey through Syria's memory. The return of a young man to his hometown is linked to the history of a famous coffee house and its various visitors. With fine powers of observation and quiet humor, he conjures up atmospheric images from a sinking, oriental world.
In the second part of the evening, the author reads excerpts from his new book of poetry “I tame hope”. In his poems 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.
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Suleman Taufiq is a German-Syrian author. He was born in 1953 and grew up in Damascus. In 1971 he moved to Germany, where he studied philosophy and comparative literature.
Suleman Taufiq, who moves in both the German and the Arab world, uses literature for what it originally wants: to get to know the other, to experience its 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.
Admission: 8 euros (advance ticket sales in the library)
