Reading with Ali Abdollahi in Dresden

On September 12th, Ali Abdollahi is coming to Dresden to present his volumes of poetry and his anthology “A Thief in the Dark Stares at a Painting”. The anthology was published by us in 2021 and is a collection of Persian-language poetry from the 21st century that Ali Abdollahi selected and translated together with Kurt Scharf. More information about the reading can be found here: https://literaturnetz-dresden.de/veranstaltungen/ali-abdollahi-wetterumschlag/ A thief in the dark stares at a painting The volume brings together a selection of poems by the most important contemporary Persian-speaking poets from all over the world

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12.09.2023

European Literature Festival Cologne Kalk with Suleman Taufiq

On Saturday, September 2nd, Suleman Taufiq will be at the European Literature Festival Cologne Kalk. A short film about the person Suleman Taufiq and his literature will be shown. Suleman Taufiq will also present his texts. Suleman reads in German and Arabic. Jonas Linnebank will moderate the event. Reading and speaking take place in Arabic and German. About the author Suleman Taufiq is a German-Syrian author and is known as a poet, storyteller, music critic, publicist, editor and translator of Arabic literature and lives in Aachen. Born in Beirut in 1953

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02.09.2023

[CANCELLED] Reading with Gerrit Wustmann

On Thursday, June 2nd, 2022, Gerrit Wustmann will read from his essay "World Literature" in the Bremen City Library. The event begins at 7 p.m. and admission is free. It will be moderated by Jens Laloire. Gerrit Wustmann, born in Cologne in 1982, is a freelance writer and journalist. He writes about world literature for Qantara (Deutsche Welle) and 54books, among others. His articles are also published by WDR, taz, Heise online, Der Freitag and other media. He has published ten books to date, including a German-Turkish trilogy of poetry about Istanbul, which is also published in

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02.06.2022

Reading "I'm not a foreigner, that's just my name"

On Thursday, May 12th Amir Shaheen will read from his novel I'm not a foreigner, my name is just that, in the bookstore Bücherwelt. The event starts at 8 p.m. When a German native speaker has an Arabic name, it raises legitimate questions in everyday life. If someone like Amir Shaheen is also a writer and publishes books, well, then it makes sense to want to know whether his texts will be translated – into German! Amir Shaheen describes pointedly and wittily what

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12.05.2022

Reading "I'm not a foreigner, that's just my name"

On Friday, April 22nd is Amir Shaheen in the Altena public library from his novel I'm not a foreigner, my name is just reading. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. and doors open at 7 p.m. There will be a book table from the Katerlöh bookstore. Admission: 10 euros / with a library card or membership card of the Kulturring: 8 euros Tickets are available in the library and bookshop. When a German native speaker has an Arabic name, it raises legitimate questions in everyday life. If someone like Amir Shaheen then

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22.04.2022

Reading with Angelika Sinn "Between Heaven and Tündük"

On Thursday, April 7th, at 6 p.m., Angelika Sinn will read from her Kyrgyz travel journal “Between Heaven and Tündük”. This takes place as part of the exhibition by the artist Neeharika Donau Hossain in the Onil gallery. About the book: Angelika Sinn's travel journal is a story about encounters with a wondrous country - Kyrgyzstan. An invitation to a symposium for artists and writers takes the author to a yurt camp on the remote mountain lake Issyk Kul. There, the foreign natural landscape becomes a profound experience. Angelika tells the story in poetic images

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07.04.2022

Article 'Writing under pressure'

"The others, the serious poets, pay a high price for their independence, namely that of a constant threat from the state. 'Let's cry at a grave / in which / there is still no dead', writes Shahin Mansouri Arani, who was born in 1960, in her poem 'Knives': 'Sharper knives / are already on the way.' ” ‑Kersten Knipp, DW

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24.01.2022

Reading with Jabbar Abdullah

We look forward to the reading by Jabbar Abdullah on October 2nd, 2021 at 8:15 p.m. in Eschborn. Jabbar Abdullah will read from his work Raqqa am Rhein as part of the intercultural program in Eschborn. On the book From Raqqa on the Euphrates to Cologne on the Rhine – the arduous path from war and repression to freedom In 2012, the Syrian author Jabbar Abdullah took part in the first demonstrations at his university in Aleppo and had to watch how the regime of Bashar Al-Assad the Arab Spring

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02.10.2021

Reading with Amir Shaheen

We are looking forward to the event with Amir Shaheen on October 1st, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. in the Ost Gallery in Lörrach. Amir Shaheen will present his new book I'm not a foreigner, my name is just that and read from it. Admission is a voluntary donation, registration required. Further information, including registration, can be found at Galerie Ost. Reserve your PLACE today at: eMail@studiokreativ.online

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01.10.2021

Lesung mit Pedro Kadivar

We look forward to the event Art of Escape with Pedro Kadivar on September 25th, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. in the Theater Erfurt. The event is a cooperation between the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Theater Erfurt and takes place as an introduction to the play The Art of Escape, which will be performed in the Studio Box from October 3rd, 2021. Pedro Kadivar will read from his book The Little Book of Migration and Anna Allstädt (KlangScaffold e.V. Erfurt) will talk to the author and the guests after the book presentation. Further

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25.09.2021

At home in the word – Long Night of Poetry with Sarah Kiyanrad

We are looking forward to the event At Home in the Word - Long Night of Poetry on September 17th, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. in the Brunnenhof in the Arsenal in Augsburg. In the beginning was the song. At the beginning of poetry in ancient Greece, the lyrical performance was accompanied by a kithara or lyre. The poem was a song – the song was a poem. After the silence in the pandemic, text and music should have their say again. Five Augsburg authors, Carmen Jaud, Sarah Kiyanrad, Knut Schaflinger, Max Sessner, Siegried Völlger

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17.09.2021

Reading and conversation with Habib Tengour - "The Old Man from the Mountains"

From 15th to 19th May the 25th Heidelberg Literature Days take place. On Thursday, May 16th, Habib Tengour will read from his novel “The Old Man from the Mountains” as part of the festival. The reading will be in both German and French. The reading will be moderated by Hans Thill and Regina Keil-Sagawe, the book's translator. We cordially invite everyone to this event! He is considered "one of the most powerful and imaginative poetic voices of the post-colonial francophone Maghreb" (Pierre Joris). Habib Tengour intervenes in an equally visionary way

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16.05.2019

Reading with Fariba Vafi – “The Dream of Tibet”

Look forward to an exciting reading in German and Persian by the multiple literature prize winner Fariba Vafi. On April 12, she is coming to Vienna as part of her two-week reading tour and will be reading from her latest work, Der Traum von Tibet (from the Persian by Jutta Himmelreich). The search for freedom and the desire for self-determination also play an important role in "The Dream of Tibet". The young Scholeh suffers from lovesickness and flees to her half-sister Schiwa and her husband Javid. While

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12.04.2019

Reading with Fariba Vafi – “The Dream of Tibet”

The author Fariba Vafi is coming to Germany and Austria in April for a reading tour and will read from her latest work The Dream of Tibet (from the Persian by Jutta Himmelreich). Its first reading will take place on April 8th in Cologne. On her two-week tour, she will also read in Düsseldorf and Vienna. Freelance author and editor Gerrit Wustmann will moderate the reading in Cologne. The search for freedom and the desire for self-determination also play a part

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08.04.2019

Book premiere: “Stolpersteine ​​in Bremen. Searching for Biographical Traces – Findorff, Walle, Gröpelingen”

The "Stolpersteine" project is entering the next round. In Volume 5, the search for clues leads to the districts of Findorff, Walle and Gröpelingen. Look forward to an exciting reading, presented by Rainer Iwersen and accompanied by music from Aladdin Haddad (guitar). The series of publications deals with the biographies of the 652 Bremen Nazi victims whose memory has been honored by the STOLPERSTEINE BREMEN project since 2004. After the four volumes on the regions North, Central and Ostertor/Oestliche Vorstadt and Schwachhausen, Horn-Lehe, the biographies of those who

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28.03.2019

Re-Release "Nearing Thirty, ... Kiss Me" - Widad Nabi

Good news! The new volume of poetry Shortly before thirty, ... kiss me by the successful author Widad Nabi arrived here at Sujet Verlag today. Wonderful texts await you! First of all, there is a little foretaste: I bring up mourning in the empty flower pots on my balcony. The green has left my home since the last cry of a starving child in my country. Translation from Arabic by Suleman Taufiq.

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20.03.2019

Reading with Inge Buck - "Spring Bird - Poetry and Music"

On March 19th there will be a reading with Inge Buck at the community center in Obervieland, where she will read from various of her works. The reading is supplemented by musical accompaniment by Madjid Mohit. Furthermore, at the beginning of the event, Thorsten Marold from the community center will give a welcome speech. We cordially invite everyone to the event! Admission is free. The Obervieland community center on Facebook.

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19.03.2019

Re-release "Memory Dogs" - Ramy Al-Asheq

The wait is finally over! We are very pleased to announce that Ramy Al-Asheq's new volume of poetry, Memory Dogs, has recently been published here by Sujet Verlag. Here's a little taste: I loved a city that made my stomach hurt Brought memories that forgot me Befriended me and aged My songs left me to rust To this day I haven't learned how to raise love In this regard, we refer all interested

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11.03.2019

Reading Amir Shaheen – “Residual light traces

On February 14, there will be a reading of Amir Shaheen's book of poetry, "Light Traces Restlicht", which has just been published this year, in the Sattler bookstore. Amir Shaheen follows the tracers of light in our time and also detects the residual light on darker days. Seas, roads, departures and farewells, elapsing and badly used days, the time that one never had or that still remains, the ephemeral, the futile, home or being homeless are recurring images and motifs in this collection. Beyond observation and description, about experiences or

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14.02.2019

Re-Release "Remaining Light Traces" - Amir Shaheen

It's finally here! We are very happy to hold the great volume of poetry by the poetry award winner Amir Shaheen in our hands. Divided into three groups, Leuchtspuren Restlicht brings together around sixty poems, including the poem “Sediment” for the first time in a book, for which Shaheen was awarded the postpoetry.nrw prize in November 2018. Here is the book.

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28.01.2019

Gunther Gerlach – exhibition and reading

As part of the International Celebration of Contemporary Sculpture, an exhibition by the sculptor Gunther Gerlach will take place in the Marble Hall in Bremen on January 27th. Since 2010, over 15,000 art lovers of contemporary 3‑dimensional sculpture have joined the non-profit network. The events planned worldwide will take place simultaneously at more than 60 different locations in studios, museums, galleries or art academies and offer a large platform for the exchange of ideas. The Marble Hall in the historic Kaffee HAG building on Fabrikenufer provides the setting for an exhibition in Bremen

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27.01.2019

New review – “Refugee Cafe” by Nahid Keshavarz

There is also a nice review of the 2018 book “Refugee Café” by Nahid Keshavarz. “The journalist and psychologist Nahid Keshavarz, who has lived in Germany for 30 years, works as a psychological consultant and manager of a refugee center in Cologne. In this anthology, translated into German by Monika Matzke, a collection of thirteen stories about people with a migration background and a refugee experience, she describes life in the new homeland and the difficulties of arriving in a new society with different values ​​and norms. in the

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14.01.2019