West-Eastern Diwan e.v.

“... floating between the worlds ... "

Read by Inge Buck, Gunther Gerlach and Cornelius Head-Finke

Moderation: Johannes party

Music: Otto Maier (on the Hang) & Dieter Weischen (on the Shakuhachi / Bambusflöte)

The Gilgamesch epic is one of the oldest literary downWritings that survived millennia. It is one of the great stories of humanity. It describes the path of King Gilgamesch in the historic city of Uruk in today's Iraq on 12 excavated cuneiform boards. Although almost 4000 years old, the Gilgamesh Epos is still highly topical. It brings us the basic questions about self -searching, strangeness, doubts, friendship, struggle and mortality and reports before the biblical description of the event of the deluge. Inge Buck and Gunther Gerlach stimulated the hymnic story to try a lyrical approach. Passages from the translated original are read and mirrored in their own poems and freely retelled.

Photo exhibition with Ernst Günther Weber

Ernst Günther Weber lived in Baghdad, Iraq as a foreign trade clerk from 1956 to 1971. As an author, he has so far published a numismatic, internationally respected and multi-quoted work "Arabo-Sasanidic Drachmen" and numerous essays about previously disabled Islamic coins in numismatic journals. He also published autobiographical reports in his book "Excursion to the Civil War and other experiences".