As part of the 25th Film Festival Turkey Germany from 18.-25. July 2021 Doğan Akhanlı will read together with the translator Recai Hallaç from his work Madonnas Last Dream. The reading is accompanied by Mikail Yakut's virtuoso accordion playing. In Madonna's Last Dream, Doğan Akhanlı takes up the novella Madonna in the Fur Coat by the Turkish poet Sabahattin Ali and rewrites it. Akhanlı makes Ali himself a character in a novel. On his way into exile in 1948 he was killed by members of the Turkish secret service. Confessed immediately before his death…

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