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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[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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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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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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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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Reading: Anthology: This is how you take life with you

We look forward to the reading of the anthology How to take life with you on October 7th, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. in the Villa Sponte. With: Zahirul Islam Babul, Mila Chami, Farhan Hebbo, Saber Latifi, Madjid Mohit, Salman Nurhak, Rosa Jaisli, and Ernesto Salazar-Jiménez On the piano: Milena Minkwitz Afterwards: Discussion with the authors, the editor Angelika Sinn and the Publisher Madjid Mohit Moderation: Jens Laloire Further information on the anthology: The eight authors of the anthology "So you take life with you" come originally

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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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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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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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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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