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Reading “99 scattered pearls” (STP)

GfbV Geiststraße 7, Göttingen, Lower Saxony

Organisiert von der Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV), findet am sechsten Dezember, in Göttingen, eine Lesung mit Halim Youssef statt, der aus seinem neuen Roman "99 zerstreute Perlen" vorliest. In seinem jüngsten Werk präsentiert Youssef die Lebensgeschichte eines syrischen Übersetzers, Azado, der in den gelebten Erfahrungen der Flüchtlinge, mit denen er arbeitet, einen Spiegel seiner eigenen Vergangenheit erkennt.

Tribute to Berzan Kejo

Sujet Verlag Bornstraße 18, Bremen, Bremen

Zur Würdigung des Künstlers, Autors, Filmemachers und Spieleentwicklers Berzan Kejo, dessen Todestag sich am 12.1.24 zum ersten Mal jährt, lädt der Sujet-Verlag am Freitag, 26. Januar 2024 um 18.30 Uhr zu einer Veranstaltung in seinen Eventraum Text´n Art in die Bornstraße 18 ein. Sein Roman "Ro Jin - Sonne des Lebens" https://sujetverlag.de/buecher/ro-jin-sonne-des-lebens/ ist 2018 in zweiter Auflage im Sujet Verlag erschienen. Berzan Kejos Prosa und Lyrik auf Kurdisch und Deutsch, zum Teil noch unveröffentlicht, und Videos, in denen er selbst zu Wort kommt,…

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20 years of stumbling blocks in Bremen

House of the Bremen Citizenship Bremen

House of the Bremen Citizenship, Bremen 20 years of stumbling blocks in Bremen Against forgetting - an art and remembrance project 6:00 p.m. (admission from 5:30 p.m.) In September 2003, the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig presented his stumbling block project in Bremen, and the following year it was adopted here. Since then, almost 800 stumbling blocks have been laid on our city's sidewalks. In total, there are currently over 100,000 memorial stones in Europe. This evening we will report on the beginnings of the project and on coming to terms with the fates of those victims…

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»There is a poem on the edge of language” – an evening for Axel Kutsch with our authors: Gerrit Wustmann and Amir Shaheen

Literature House Cologne Great Greek Market 39, Cologne

The poet and editor Axel Kutsch helped shape German poetry for almost fifty years. From early political poetry to language experiments in the 1990s and humorous metal poetry to his formative role as editor of almost fifty anthologies: without Axel Kutsch, the local poetry scene would be different. After his serious illness in February 2023, his daughter Katja Kutsch and the writer Gerrit Wustmann compiled his entire poetic work. At the Literaturhaus Cologne they present it together with publisher Ralf Liebe and Amir…

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Lesung Pedro Kadivar

Bookseller's cellar Carmerstraße 1, Charlottenburg, Berlin

Der Startschuss für unser diesjähriges Lesungs-Programm fällt am ersten Februar, im Buchhändlerkeller, Berlin-Charlottenburg: Pedro Kadivar liest aus seinem Buch "Unendlich ist die Nacht", einer tiefgründigen Geschichte über die komplexe Beziehung zweier Flüchtlinge. Es moderiert Gernot Krämer.

Reading “99 Scattered Pearls” with Halim Youssef

StadtPalais - Museum for Stuttgart Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse 2, Stuttgart

Book presentation 99 scattered pearls with Halim Youssef, moderation Faisal Osman and Avra ​​Emin Friday February 23rd, 2024 at 6:30 p.m., StadtPalais - Museum für Stuttgart This event is organized by the Kurdish Community of Stuttgart in cooperation with Black Community Foundation Stuttgart and StadtPalais-Museum für Stuttgart presents. Invisible voices from the diaspora: Two authors will present their literary works in a reading on February 23, 2024, which deal intensively with their lives in the diaspora. It is Halim Youssef with his work “99 Scattered Pearls”…

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LitQ Events – Dogan Akhanli

Villa Ichon Goetheplatz 4, Bremen

Villa Ichon, Bremen Dogan Akhanli (* Turkey 1957 - + 2021 Berlin) When Dogan Akhanli tells the story, times are becoming engulfed and borders are becoming permeable. Inge Buck and Cornelius Kopf-Finke & Company Mit siebzehn Jahren wurde Dogan Akhanli das erste Mal wegen des Kaufs einer linksgeríchteten Zeitschrift in der Türkei verhaftet. Das war der Anfang einer lebenslangen staatlichen Verfolgung. Zuletzt wurde er - inzwischen deutscher Staatsbürger - 2017 in Granada seiner Freiheit beraubt. Er schrieb darüber das beeindruckend literarisch-dokumentarische Buch "Verhaftung in Granada“.…

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taz Salon: City of Literature Bremen – What’s that supposed to mean?

Cultural Center Lagerhaus Bremen e.V. - Culture, Ecology, Migration Schildstrasse 12-19, Bremen, Bremen

This event is presented by the taz at the Kulturzentrum Lagerhaus Bremen e.V. - Culture, Ecology, Migration. City of Literature Bremen: UNESCO has declared Bremen as the 53rd city in the world as a City of Literature. A great success, especially for a city without an outstanding literary heritage - in which almost one in ten adults is considered functionally illiterate. But: What does Bremen do with it? What follows from the title? Because, even though UNESCO has been awarding it for 20 years, its effect is almost unexplored. And the previous ones…

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Book presentation 99 scattered pearls with Halim Youssef

IGBS | Indimaj. Society for Education & Social Stair Street 12-14, Kassel

Saturday March 2nd, 2024 in Kassel IGBS | Indimaj. Society for Education & Social Organizer: I.GBS Address: Brückenstraße 12-14, 34117 Kassel

Author reading: Salem Khalfani reads from “Flying Cats”

Deer meeting place for older people Hirschgasse 9, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg

In “Flying Cats” Salem Khalfani reports on a six-story building in a German city. The characters are closely intertwined despite their coincidental connections. A missing cat takes center stage. After the reading by the Wiesbaden author of Iranian origin, there is time for conversation over snacks and tea. Salem Khalfani was born in Iran in 1963 and has lived in Germany since 1985. After studying literature at the University of Mainz, he published a study in 2003 on the “similarities of the absurd” in European literature. Furthermore…

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