Maryam Djahani; Translation Isabel Stümpel Unchecked by Kermanshah Audio book presentation and conversation with Petra-Janina Schultz and Madjid Mohit Shohre is in her early thirties and lives as a taxi driver in Kermanshah, Iran. She takes us on her tour of the city and lets us experience through her eyes all the fun, crazy and painful encounters that make up the life of a divorced working woman in Iran. Maryam Djahani's novel is ironic and at the same time sensitively told, her tone is never sentimental or pitying. The novel is one…

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In einer digital ausgestrahlten Veranstaltung liest der Kölner Schriftsteller Doğan Akhanlı aus seinem Werk "Madonnas letzter Traum". Die Texte werden von dem Autor Gerrit Wustmann rezitiert, der auch das Gespräch mit Akhanlı führt. Die Lesung können Sie am 31. Januar 2021 ab 18.00 Uhr auf der Facebook-Seite von KulturForum TürkeiDeutschland als Video-Premiere verfolgen. Die Lesung können Sie sich aber auch auf https://vimeo.com/500629581 oder dem YouTube-Kanal des KulturForums anschauen. Die Beiträge in deutscher und türkischer Sprache werden jeweils durch Untertitelung übersetzt. Die Lesung ist…

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The author and writer Mahmood Hosseini Zad will talk about poetry in Iranian cinema in a contribution, with a special focus on the films of Abbas Kiarostami. Kiarostami's films are regularly represented at the film festivals in Cannes, Venice and Berlin; The filmmaker himself was most recently a member of the Oscar jury. Mahmood Hosseini Zad was awarded the Goethe Medal and is considered the most important translator of German literature into Persian. His translations include works by Brecht, Dürrenmatt, Böll, Kafka, Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm. The contribution…

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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? Fariba Vafi will read and conduct the conversation in Farsi. Jutta Himmelreich translated. In Nava Ebrahimi's My Neighbor's Paradise, Ali Najjar believes his past is far behind…

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Our author Widad Nabi will read from her volume of poetry Kurz vor Thirty... kiss me (translated by Suleman Taufiq) on February 18, 2021 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The event is part of the Center for Mission and Ecumenism (Northern Church) three-part web seminar The Language of Flight. You can find more information here.

The Iranian Community in Germany e.V. (IGD) is organizing a storytelling salon on February 18, 2021, 6:00-8:30 p.m. as part of the value dialogue project "Your Values ​​- My Values ​​- Our Values" on the topic: "Culture as a constitutive element of international understanding – about migration, integration and identities”. We want to talk about these and other topics with the German-Syrian writer and editor Suleman Taufiq and the Iranian theater director and author Pedro Kadivar. Kadivar, who was born in Shiraz/Iran and later emigrated to Paris, sets out in his essay “Small…

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In the volume Halt aus in der Nacht bis zum Wein, Kurt Scharf compiles poetry from the years 1941 to 1979, an epoch that he himself describes as the golden age of Persian poetry. The poems are enlivened by Scharf's sensitive translation in a splendor that gives German-speaking readers an authentic insight into the world of Persian poetry. Kurt Scharf was deputy director of the Goethe-Institut in Tehran as well as director of the Goethe-Institut in Porto Alegre, Istanbul and Lisbon. He is also a founding member of the…

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