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.

Reading from the anthology of the same name (edited by Angelika Sinn) With: Mila Chami, Saber Latifi, Madjid Mohit, Salman Nurhak and Ernesto Salazar-Jiménez At the piano: Milena Minkwitz Afterwards: Discussion with the authors, the editor Angelika Sinn and the publisher Madjid Mohit Moderator: Jens Laloire An event organized by the Bremer Literaturkontor in cooperation with the Sujet Verlag & Villa Sponte Tuesday, November 10th, 7 p.m., Villa Sponte, Osterdeich 59 B Admission is free – after the reading, hats go around because of the hygiene regulations…

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Tuesday, Nov. 17, 7:00 p.m. Reading The dream of Tibet by Fariba Vafi translated from Farsi by Jutta Himmelreich My neighbor's paradise by Nava Ebrahimi In Fariba Vafi's The dream of Tibet, young Scholeh suffers from lovesickness and flees to her half-sister Shiva and her husband Javid. While Scholeh is plagued by her own worries, she begins to question the happiness of the others: Is Schiwa happy with her husband? Does Djawid dream bigger than a family? What do intimacy, adultery and criticism of authority mean?…

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Thursday, Nov. 19, 7:00 p.m. Poetry evening Sarah Kiyanrad and Garous Abdolmalekian in conversation about contemporary Iranian poetry Jahre nach dir looks at places and people, at small and large things that get lost before our eyes. Sometimes it's also the things we would like to lose. Sarah Kiyanrad teaches Iranian cultural history in Munich and also works as a translator. When the war ended, peace killed people united in a series of intimate and protestant texts that his readers…

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Festivalmotto: "Die Kraft der Literatur"

Wed. Nov. 25, 7:00 p.m. Reading Symphonie der Toten by Abbas Maroufi Translated from the Persian by Anneliese Ghahraman-Beck While Aidin reacts to his father's strictness with rebellion, his brother Urhan shows himself to be docile. Although the two completely different sons soon go their separate ways, the family bond brings them together again under dramatic circumstances. As soon as they are both back in their parents' house, the tensions between Aidin and Urhan increase. Tradition and progress as well as a tender love story are the central themes of Abbas Maroufis…

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