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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On Saturday, February 20th at 7pm, our author Suleman Taufiq will be featured at the third live streaming event in the #CORONAWINTER 2020/21 series. The event is donation-based and is intended to support artists from the Aachen region. The live stream takes place on the Stolberg Evangelisch YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs8gvn4mrs-Yq0XJH7pjEEA

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 Maroufi's family drama, which shows parallels to Cain and Abel. In this year the Symphony of the Dead, first published in 1989…

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Shortly after his 18th birthday, Timm locks himself in his room. His father Hamid tries everything to get him out, but all efforts are in vain. A joint trip to Peru is intended to bring father and son closer together. But on Timm's 19th birthday of all things, Hamid leaves the hotel in the Andean city of Cusco in the morning and disappears. ”Nassir Djafari tells his story with sober warmth, it sounds paradoxical, but that's exactly how it works. And offers one aha moment after the next.” WDR Cosmo Nassir Djafari, 1952 in Iran…

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Years after you focuses on places and people, small and large things that are 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. The sensitive poems of the poet Inge Buck were translated into Persian by Madjid Mohit. On the occasion of the event, poetry will be read from the works Unter dem Schnee and Nachtwind in both languages ​​- by Inge Buck in German and by Madjid…

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On April 13th at 7.30 p.m. there will be a workshop reading with our author Widad Nabi and Annett Gröschner in the Mauritius Mediathek in Wiesbaden. Moderators will be Dr. Viola Bolduan. The reading is organized by the Friends of the Wiesbaden Literature House Villa Clementine e.V. in cooperation with the Literature House and the Wiesbaden City Library. So far, the reading is planned as a face-to-face event.