Where? East Passage Theater e.V., Konradstr. 27, 04315 Leipzig Admission free! Together with the author Doğan Akhanlı and the Leipzig author Özlem Özgül Dündar, we want to talk about commonalities in literary work and fictional discussions with and remembering experiences and continuities of violence from a transcultural perspective, based on the different works of the authors. The two authors will read selected texts from their works. Afterwards there will be room for exchange and discussion in an open round of talks.

Der Mülheimer Literaturclub veranstaltet einen Abend zu dem Thema "Von hier sein" zu dem auch Amir Shaheen mit seinem neuen Buch eingeladen ist. Alle Infos zur Veranstaltung finden sich unter diesem Link: https://www.immer-schoen-sachlich.de/muelheimer-literaturclub/ Wenn ein deutscher Muttersprachler einen arabischen Namen trägt, dann wirft das im Alltag berechtigte Fragen auf. Wenn jemand wie Amir Shaheen dann auch noch Schriftsteller ist und Bücher veröffentlicht, na, dann liegt es doch nahe, wissen zu wollen, ob seine Texte übersetzt werden – ins Deutsche! Amir Shaheen schildert pointiert…

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Where? Theater an der Ruhr, Akazienallee 61 45478 Mülheim an der Ruhr An obsessive love, a tragic end, a desperate search for clues, set in Germany, Poland, Turkey during the Nazi era, but also decades later: Doğan Akhanlı, awarded the Goethe Medal 2019, tells a fast-paced refugee story in "Madonna's Last Dream".

Course of events: Part: Safiye Can and Dalibor Marković make the poetic prelude. Nassir Djafari ("One Week, One Life") and Katharina Hartwell ("The Silver Sea Saga - The King of Crows") will then present their spring titles under the motto #second spring. Part: Michael Wagener, publisher of Gutleut Verlag (Special Prize Hessian Publishing Prize 2020), talks about the importance of poetry and how to make good books. Finally, Robert Gernhardt reads award winner Nina Bussmann from her novel "Dickicht" about dependencies and friendships, while Leonhard Hieronymi reads "In informal company".…

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Where? Stralsunder Str. 10/11, 17489 Greifswald In Madonna's last dream, Doğan Akhanlı takes up the novella Madonna in a 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. Immediately before his death, he confesses that Maria Puder actually died differently than in his novella. Madonna's last dream is trying to tell the true story of the life and death of Maria Puder in the…

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Am 26.10. liest der Autor Doğan Akhanlı in der Zentralbibliothek Duisburg aus seinem Werk "Madonnas letzter Traum". Wenn ihr Interesse habt, an der Lesung teilzunehmen, dann findet ihr hier mehr Informationen. Eintritt: 6€ / VVK 5€

Where? Schauspiel Köln, Schanzenstraße 6-20, 51063 Cologne In the summer of 2017, Turkey announced the arrest of the Cologne-based writer Doğan Akhanlı via Interpol. The director Nuran David Calis takes on Akhanlı's life story, which in personal and harrowing reports not only reports on the fateful arrest, but also on previous imprisonments, some of which lasted for many years.