The Cologne writer Doğan Akhanlı recently became known to a wider audience through his arrest in Granada, the report of his arrest ordered by the Erdogan regime while on vacation in Spain and the subsequent release thanks to mediation by the EU. His epic Madonnas last dream, published in 2006, is a fascinatingly multi-layered text that describes the darkest chapter of German history from an unusual perspective: Akhanlı gives an insight into the character of the Turkish writer Sabahattin Ali and his relationship to the Jewish diseuse Maria Puder…

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