A solidarity event with Fariba Vafi and Ali Abdollahi will take place at Haus Am Dom (Frankfurt a.M.) on January 31, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. - Fariba Vafi wants freedom to write. The important writer has recently moved from living in Iran to Berlin. “The young women have flown away and they can no longer be caught,” she says of the younger generation. “She defends herself and screams. This is new.” About the protests, the uncontrollable city of Tehran, about writing among the…

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On February 2nd, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. there will be an event with Fariba Vafi in the Literaturhaus Köln. Gerrit Wustmann will be the moderator. Here is an excerpt from the article: In her collection of stories An den Regen (Sujet Verlag), the Iranian bestselling author Faribā Vafī uses poetic language and a precise perspective to reflect the intimate everyday experiences of women who try to go their own way independent of social restrictions. She talks to Gerrit Wustmann about the tensions between tradition and progressiveness. Jutta Himmelreich translates the conversation. Arash Alborz poses…

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On Monday, February 6, there will be a bilingual reading of Faribā Vafī's An den Regen in Farsi/German at SLUB Dresden, followed by an audience discussion. Lotfali Semino, Chairman of the Iranian Cultural Association in Dresden, will moderate and then translate the audience discussion with the author. With her first novel Parande-ye-man (2002, Ger. Kellervogel, 2013) she created a novelty in modern Iranian authorship: balancing between a language-aesthetically reduced narrative of a housewife and mother who fights for a self-determined life, she negotiates social taboos such as estranged mother-child relationships, unfulfilled marriages…

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* Music * Theater * Poetry * Film * Art * Performance for global climate justice On February 24, 2023 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. the event Culture raises its voice by climArt and the Bürgerhaus Weserterrassen will take place. Artists from all disciplines present their contributions on the topics of climate, colonialism and war and express their diverse thoughts, feelings, hopes and wishes. Two of our authors are there! Inge Buck and Gunther Gerlach will read their poems in the first part of the event.