Madonna's Last Dream By Doğan Akhanlı The Turkish writer Doğan Akhanlı does not want to believe that the protagonist of the national novel The Madonna in the Fur Coat died of natural causes in Berlin in 1938. His investigations reveal a historical panorama of guilt and responsibility, ranging from emigrant life in pre-war Berlin to the sinking of the refugee ship Struma off the Turkish coast in 1942 to the current culture of remembrance of the Holocaust. This is how voices appear that were never heard before. A fantastic journey through time…

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The Lyrik Cabinet in Munich is organizing readings, discussions and lectures for the poet Said from November 7th to 9th with the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In addition to many interesting lectures, our Ali Abdollahi will also give a reading and a conversation with Yamen Hussein on Thursday, November 7th at 7:00 p.m. in the Lyrik Kabinett Munich. Cornelia Zetzsche will moderate the event and Theresa Seraphin will read the translations. Admission for the evening events is 12/8€

Poetry of the World Readings Suleman Taufiq, a Damascus-born writer, journalist, translator and editor of Arabic literature, came to Aachen to study philosophy and comparative literature. In 1978 he published his first volume of poetry in German, which was followed by numerous publications. He also became known as an author for broadcasters such as WDR and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. For the vhs Aachen he invites poets to readings and discussions about their literature. These events are free of charge. The Kurdish-Syrian poet Widad Nabi, born in Kobane, lives in Berlin.…

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Am 12. November 2024 um 19 Uhr ist Taqi Akhlaqi bei „Literaturen im Exil“ im Literaturhaus Berlin zu Gast. Da stellt er sein neustes Buch "Versteh einer die Deutschen" vor. Mit ihm im Gespräch sind auch Autor Najat Abed Alsamad und die Redakteurin von Sinn & Form Elisa Primavera-Lévy.

Wir freuen uns verkünden zu dürfen, dass am 13. November 2024 um 19:30 die Buchpremiere und Ausstellung von "Die Grenzen des Sommers" von Inge Buck, mit Cartoons von Lothar Bührmann hier bei uns im Sujet Verlag stattfinden wird. Gelesen wird von der Autorin Inge Buck höchstpersönlich, von Cornelius Kopf-Finke und Johannes Feest.Mit dabei ist eine Einführung von Dr. Rainer Beßling und Prof. Dr. Gert Sautermeister und eine musikalische Begleitung auf der Shakuhachi, einer japanischen Bambusflöte, von Dieter Weische. Ausstellungsdauer: 04. November bis 27.…

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Abbe, 62 years old, a successful Frankfurt businessman and cosmopolitan, sees himself as German. His Iranian roots are buried. One day, when a distant relative who had just arrived from Iran visits him, his life is thrown into disarray. The visitor is inscrutable, entangled in contradictions and stumbles from one emergency to the next. Soon Abbe's life only revolves around his relative's problems. Only gradually does the young man's true story become clear to him, and he begins to understand him and himself…

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The Short Story Night combines high-quality, exciting short stories with a relaxed atmosphere: Welcome to a special cinema evening in the Cologne Filmhaus! We are looking forward to five short stories from five wonderful authors! About the authors: Lana Lux is a German-speaking writer, illustrator and presenter of Ukrainian-Jewish origin. She was born in Dnipro in 1986, emigrated to the Ruhr area in 1996 and has lived in Berlin since 2010. Her debut novel Kukolka was published in 2017, her second novel Hunter and Gatherer was published in 2020, and her third novel Organized Conditions followed in 2024…

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Am Freitag den 15. November 2024 um 19 Uhr in Bremen liest Halim Youssef aus seinem Roman "99 zerstreute Perlen vor.

Suleman Taufiq from Aachen is a German-Syrian author and is known as a poet, storyteller and translator of Arabic literature. Born in 1953, Taufiq spent his childhood in Damascus before studying philosophy and comparative literature in Germany in 1971 after graduating from high school. His first volume of poetry in German was published in 1978. He has lived as a freelance writer in Aachen since 1972. His work now includes more than 36 titles. In addition to poems, novels, stories and essays, he writes stories for children and translates Arabic works into German, as well as numerous…

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Association of German Writers Lower Saxony/Bremen in cooperation with the Bremen Literaturkontor Impulse lecture and panel discussion “What does my book cost?” – four actors from the German literary world will address this question in a panel discussion in the Bremen press club, moderated by Dr. Lore Kleinert. (Aspiring) authors and anyone interested are warmly invited to find out about the current opportunities and conditions for publishing a book in 2024. The publishers and the author on the podium discuss various practices and visions for future interactions with each other. Under…

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