A shared reading & Conversation with Taqi Akhlaqi & Najat Abed Alsamad

Exile Museum Berlin Fasanenstrasse 24, 10719 Berlin

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.

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book premiere & Exhibition “The Limits of Summer” by Inge Buck with cartoons by Lothar Bührmann

Sujet Verlag Bornstraße 18, Bremen, Bremen

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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reading & Conversation with Nassir Djafari – “The Great Cousin”

conceivable Spohrstrasse 46a, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse

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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SHORT STORY NIGHT im Filmhaus

Filmhaus Cologne Maybachstraße 111, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia

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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"I tame hope” – reading with Suleman Taufiq

Stolberg city library Frankentalstraße 3, Stolberg, North Rhine-Westphalia

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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How much does my book cost? VS Author’s Day

Bremen press club Schnoor 27, Bremen, Bremen

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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Ein Abend über Doğan Akhanlı: Sankofa

Literature House Cologne Grosser Griechenmarkt 39, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia

In his last major novel, Sankofa (Sujet Verlag), which is now published posthumously, Doğan Akhanlı (1957–2021) draws a wide arc from persecuted opposition activists in an Anatolian village to Cologne at the time of the NSU murders to the USA during Black Lives Matter demos. Gerrit Wustmann and Çiler Fırtına talk about the novel and its author. In all twenty-six years, she had never heard her husband say anything political. In fact, the first lieutenant had to witness the events between himself and himself…

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Presentation of the poetry calendar 2025 reading

Sujet Verlag Bornstraße 18, Bremen, Bremen

On December 18th at 6 p.m. there will be a poetry evening at Sujet Verlag; The 2025 poetry calendar will be presented there and all the participating poets will read from their poems. The evening offers a great opportunity to celebrate the run-up to Christmas and the end of the year here at the publishing house. Admission is free, so feel free to stop by!

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