West-Eastern Diwan e.V. “… floating between the worlds…” With Professor Axel Dunker The Orient still appears to many as a mythical world from a thousand and a night, a dream of wisdom, wealth and eroticism. At the same time, however, it is also a projection surface of European fears and object of power fantasies. To date, there is the idea of ​​the Orient as a “other world” in literature, in children's books, films and pictures, filled with exoticly fantastic and partly reproachful ideas and pictures. Orient images also run through the literature of the…

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