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Iranian evenings 2021

Finally our journeys into literature - Iranian evenings can now take place for the third time - in digital format!
We would like to thank the virtual House of Literature Bremen for the great cooperation and also the Bremer
Literaturkontor, the Bremen Literature Foundation and the Senator for Culture of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen for their support!
All events take place via Zoom. The links to participate can be found on our website and Facebook page and are active from 15 minutes before the start of the event.
We look forward to your visit!

Symphony of the Dead by Abbas Maroufi

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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One Week, One Life by Nassir Djafari

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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Inge Buck and Sarah Kiyanrad in conversation with musical accompaniment by Elshan Ghasimi

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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Workshop reading with Widad Nabi and Annett Gröschner

Mauritius Media Library Hochstättenstrasse 6-10, Wiesbaden

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.

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"Poet in needy time?" – Arabic authors in Germany

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Arab intellectuals, artists and writers have long had painful experiences of emigration and exile. Many of them also live in Germany. Her literature is a balancing act: still taking part in intellectual and political life in her homeland and at the same time gaining an artistic voice in German society. At a time when immigration - not least from Arab countries - is accompanied by social tensions, Arab authors try to build a bridge and contribute to a climate open to cultural encounters. the…

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Opening of the exhibition "Distant Companions" by Gunther Gerlach

Barefoot Gallery Sandkuhlenkoppel 55, Hamburg

From May 2nd to July 31st, sculptures and drawings by the Bremen artist and author Gunther Gerlach will be on display at the Barfuss Gallery in Hamburg. At the opening, the author reads the voices from his latest volume of poetry, Deeper in Space, which is published by Sujet Verlag. With music by Martin Hamborg Exhibition opening subject to the Corona rules on May 2, 2021. Visits in compliance with the prescribed Corona measures.

Madonna's Last Dream by Doğan Akhanlı

Theater in the tower Aachener Strasse 24-26, Cologne

Canceled until further notice - more information will follow! The Cologne writer Doğan Akhanlı recently became known to a wider audience through his arrest in Granada, the report of his arrest ordered by the Erdogan regime while on holiday in Spain and the subsequent release thanks to mediation by the EU. His epic Madonna's last dream, published in 2006, is a fascinating, multi-layered text that describes the darkest chapter of German history from an unusual perspective: it is conveyed via the character of the Turkish writer Sabahattin Ali and his relationship to the…

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Sound sleep – live stream reading with Schirin Nowrousian

Im Rahmen des Projekts „Viele Sprachen – eine Welt“ liest die Lyrikerin Schirin Nowrousian aus ihrem mehrsprachigen Werk. Schirin Nowrousian ist Autorin, Lyrikerin und Übersetzerin und sie schreibt in mehr als einer Sprache. Aus ihrer Feder fließen Gedichte auf Deutsch, auf Französisch und manchmal auch auf Englisch, und bisweilen treten weitere Sprachen wie Litauisch und Portugiesisch hinzu. Für unsere Veranstaltung bringt sie Texte in mehreren Sprachen aus allen ihren bisherigen Buchveröffentlichungen mit (u.a. aus dem 2019 im Sujet Verlag erschienenen Band "Gläserne Fehde"),…

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The Miracle of Language with Sarah Kiyanrad

On the occasion of the Pentecost event, when, according to the biblical story, all people suddenly understand each other again after the Babylonian confusion of languages, Andreas Pehl from Bayern2 Radio will talk to the subject author Sarah Kiyanrad and the communication scientist Doris Märtin on Pentecost Sunday about the connection between language and identity and maintain understanding. Click here for the Bayern2 Radio program!