Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Reading with Angelika Sinn "Between Heaven and Tündük"

Galerie Onil Hamburger Strasse 7, Bremen

Angelika Sinn On Thursday, April 7th, at 6 p.m., Angelika Sinn will read from her Kyrgyz travel journal “Between Heaven and Tündük”. This takes place as part of the exhibition by the artist Neeharika Donau Hossain in the Onil gallery. About the book: Angelika Sinn's travel journal is a story about encounters with a wondrous country - Kyrgyzstan. An invitation to a symposium for artists and writers takes the author to a yurt camp on the remote mountain lake Issyk Kul. There, the foreign natural landscape becomes a profound experience. In poetic…

Read more

€5

Book premiere "Gestalt im Schatten"

Botanika Bremen Deliusweg 40, Bremen

​ On April 14, 2022 at 7 p.m. the book premiere of de Assis Brasil’s book Gestalt im Schatten will take place at the botanika Bremen. Entry is from 6:30 p.m. The publisher Madjid Mohit will moderate, Jürgen Meyhöfer will provide background information on the book and Thomas Roth will read from the novel. Gestalt in the Shadow is about the man who accompanied Alexander von Humboldt on his journey to South America. While the latter is generally well known, French physician and botanist Aimé Bonpland became famous…

Read more

Lesung mit Nassir Djafari

The Kulturwerk Frankfurt factory Middle Hasenpfad 5 / Im Hof, Frankfurt/Main, Hesse

On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 8:00 p.m., Nassir Djafari will speak with the literary critic Ulrich Noller (including WDR) about his novel Eine Woche, ein Leben and read some passages from it at Fabrik Frankfurt. Nassir Djafari, born in Iran in 1952, has lived in Germany since he was five. He studied economics in Frankfurt and has held various positions in German and international development cooperation. Djafari has written numerous specialist articles and book contributions on the economic and political challenges in developing and emerging countries.…

Read more

Reading "I'm not a foreigner, that's just my name"

Altena City Library Marktstrasse 14-16, Altena/ Westphalia

On Friday, April 22nd is Amir Shaheen in the Altena City Library from his novel I'm not a foreigner, my name is just reading. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. and doors open at 7 p.m. There will be a book table from the Katerlöh bookstore. Admission: 10 euros / with a library card or membership card of the Kulturring: 8 euros Tickets are available in the library and bookshop. When a German native speaker has an Arabic name, it raises legitimate questions in everyday life. If someone like Amir…

Read more

€10

Reading "I'm not a foreigner, that's just my name"

Bookstore world of books Venloer Strasse 263, Cologne

On Thursday, May 12th Amir Shaheen will read from his novel I'm not a foreigner, my name is just that, in the bookstore Bücherwelt. The event starts at 8 p.m. When a German native speaker has an Arabic name, it raises legitimate questions in everyday life. If someone like Amir Shaheen is also a writer and publishes books, well, then it makes sense to want to know whether his texts will be translated – into German! Amir Shaheen describes pointedly and wittily what…

Read more

Reading with Eberhard Pfleiderer

Central library in the Hanse Carré Mayor-Smidt-Str. 10, Bremerhaven, Bremen

Am 31. Mai 2022 um 18:00 Uhr wird unser Autor Eberhard Pfleiderer eine Lesung aus seinem Werk ZWANGST in der Stadtbibliothek Bremerhaven halten. Dies wird auch gleichzeitig der Termin der Vernissage der Ausstellung seiner ZWANGST-Bilder sein, welche noch bis zum 30. Juni 2022 zu bestaunen sein wird. "Es ist allerhöchste Zeit, sich der schleichenden Faschisierung unserer Gesellschaft und dem dazu gehörigen Braunen Boden offensiv literarisch und künstlerisch zu stellen. Mit dieser Intention schreibt Eberhard Pfleiderer 2021 den Titel "Zwangst - Beobachtungen zum Beackern des…

Read more

Free

[CANCELLED] Reading with Gerrit Wustmann

Wall-Saal central library – access from outside via Am Wall Am Wall 201, Bremen

Am Donnerstag, den 02. Juni 2022 wird Gerrit Wustmann in der Stadtbibliothek Bremen aus seinem Essay "Weltliteratur" lesen. Beginn der Veranstaltung ist um 19 Uhr, der Eintritt ist frei. Es moderiert: Jens Laloire. Gerrit Wustmann, geboren 1982 in Köln, ist freier Schriftsteller und Journalist. Er schreibt u.a. für Qantara (Deutsche Welle) und 54books über Weltliteratur, seine Beiträge erscheinen außerdem bei WDR, taz, Heise online, Der Freitag und weiteren Medien. Er hat bislang zehn Bücher veröffentlicht, darunter eine deutsch-türkische Lyrik-Trilogie über Istanbul, die auch in…

Read more

Reading with Lina Atfah

Villa Ichon Goetheplatz 4, Bremen

The 2020 LiBerature Prize Winner Lina Atfah will read from her work “The Book of the Missing Arrival” as part of the Funun Festival on Monday, June 13 at Villa Ichon. The reading is accompanied musically by Aladdin Haddad on the guitar. You can find more information here! The Funun Festival starts on June 8th. in Bremen. Throughout June there will be various events in Bremen and the surrounding area on the subject of "Syrian Stories". The festival has made it its mission to contribute to Syrian culture…

Read more

Free

CANCELLED!!!!Reading with Jabbar Abdullah

Villa Sponte Osterdeich 59B, Bremen

Unfortunately, this reading had to be canceled due to a Corona case!! Jabbar Abdullah will read from his work Raqqa am Rhein at Villa Sponte on Wednesday, June 15th. The reading is accompanied musically by Aladdin Haddad on the guitar. You can find more information here! The Funun Festival starts on June 8th. in Bremen. Throughout June there will be various events in Bremen and the surrounding area on the subject of "Syrian Stories". The festival has set itself the task of contributing to Syrian culture in exile…

Read more

Free

"Moon Ladies” seminar at the University of Göttingen

University of Goettingen Platz der Göttinger Sieben, Goettingen, Lower Saxony

In der Universität Göttingen werden heute Abend Dr. Claudia Ott und Prof. Marilyn Booth , die Übersetzerinnen von "Monddamen", ein Gespräch mit der Arabischübersetzerin Larissa Bender über ihre Erfahrungen bei der Übertragung des Romans führen. Auch die Teilnehmerinnen des Seminars „Monddamen“ im Sommersemester 2022 werden eigene Übersetzungsproben einbringen. Besonders zur Sprache kommen werden die kreative Seite des literarischen Übersetzens, die Zusammenarbeit mit der Autorin und den Verlagen und die Grenzen der Freiheit beim Übersetzen. Die Gespräche mit der englischen Übersetzerin finden in englischer…

Read more

Free