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Literature and Theater Days with Doğan Akhanlı's books
11.19.2021 a 18:00 - 2021.11.20 a 21:00
Am November 19 and 20, 2021 A bilingual German-Turkish event will take place as part of the Literature and Theater Days in Hamburg Altonaer Rathaus instead, in cooperation with InterCultural ThinkFactory e.V as well as the MUT! Theater Hamburg and sponsored by the State Center for Political Education Hamburg. Through these readings, the current and classic books of Turkish and Kurdish literature are made known in Germany. This year the event is dedicated to Sabahattin All, who was called the grand master of Turkish prose.
During the second day of the event, on 20. November 2021, is also from the books of the recently deceased Doğan Akhanlı read and a short film about the work and life of the author was shown.
Doğan Akhanlı, born in Turkey in 1957 and died in Berlin in October 2021, has written numerous novels and a play. In 1991 he came to Germany as a political refugee. Since 1992 he lived in Cologne, later in Berlin. His core theme is the examination of the genocides of the 20th century. Due to his political stance, he was imprisoned several times in Turkey and most recently in Spain due to a Turkish arrest warrant in 2017, about which he wrote the book Arrest in Granada wrote.
The days without a father (German 2016) and Madonna's Last Dream (Eng. 2019) were chosen as the most important novel publications in Turkey. In 2013 he received the Pfarrer Georg Fritze Prize in Cologne, and in 2018 the European Tolerance Prize in Austria.
Due to the Corona measures, places are limited. We kindly ask you to register in advance by email at: info@ikdf.org
