On Friday, April 4th at 6:30 p.m., Suleman Taufiq will keep a bilingual reading in Arabic and German. This reading is part of the world's program, organized by the Volkshochschule Aachen. Suleman Taufiq is a German-Syrian author and known as a poet, narrator, music critic, publicist, editor and translator of Arabic literature and lives in Aachen. His first volume of poems appeared in German in 1978. In addition to poems, novels, stories, stories and essays, he writes stories for children and translates Arabic works into German and numerous…

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Am Samstag, dem 26. April, findet im UMZU in Bremen auf dem Hanseatenhof eine Lesung des Poesiecafés statt. Gelesen werden Texte und Gedichte in mehreren Sprachen. Dabei sind sowohl efahrene als auch neue Dichter*innen, eine Poetry-Slammerin und eine Gruppe schreibender Jugendliche. Das Programm sieht wie folgt aus: 15:00 - Lesung auf drei Sprachen mit Alev, Lisa-Marie Klug, Inge Buck und Madjid Mohit 17:00 - Lesung mit Kina Lila und Jugendlichen aus dem Projekt "Sprache im Herzen" Zusätzlich zur Lesung wird es auch Kaffee…

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West-Eastern Diwan e.V. “… floating between the worlds…” with Dr. Peter Ludwig, Saarbrücken moderated by Prof. Dr. phil. Gert Sautermeister West-Eastern Diwan e.V. together with the Goethe-Gesellschaft Bremen. Violence, terror, war - in many places, societies and cultures are currently exhausted and destroyed. Completely different, the literary encounter between the great Persian poet Hafis, donated for centuries with his Diwan (14th century) and Goethe, which gains shape and expression in the poetry of his western-Eastern Divan (1819/1827). In the meantime there have been…

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This year a trade fair will take place at the publisher as part of the Tehran book fair without censorship on May 5. At the same time as the book fair in Tehran in Iran, Iranian independent publishers outside of Iran show the literature that may not be published in its country of origin. The fair is not only a sale of books, but also a civilian protest for the back of the right to creativity and freedom of expression. Readings and discussions are planned during the trade fair period. Follow more information about the authors that follow…

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Am 14. Mai um 19 Uhr findet im Wallsaal der Stadtbibliothek Bremen eine Lesung zum Roman "Sankofa" von Doğan Akhanlı statt. Präsentiert wird die Veranstaltung im Rahmen der KÜLTÜRALE 2025. Gelesen wird auf Deutsch und Türkisch. Zusätzlich wird es noch ein Gespräch mit dem Übersetzer des Romans, Recai Hallaç, geben. Moderiert wird die Veranstaltung von Orhan Çalışır. Der Eintritt ist kostenlos. Link zum Roman: https://sujetverlag.de/buecher/dogan-akhanli-sankofa/ Link zum Autor: https://sujetverlag.de/autoren/bio-dogan-akhanli/

On May 15th at 7:30 p.m. there will be a reading in the Haus Halchem ​​district library (Severinstraße 15, 50678 Cologne). The central theme are cheerful and backlit poems and short stories. The author of Sujet Verlags Amir Shaheen will also read. Evert Everts, Petra Reachui and Rolf Polander are also represented. Admission is free. Amir Shaheen, born 1966 in Lüdenscheid, studied German studies, English, theater, film and television science. The trained publisher is an author, editor and PR editor and writes poetry, prose, satirical and columns. Since 1989…

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A bracelet that glitters in the sun on May 30th at 6 p.m. will occur the poet Schirin Nowrousian and the luteist Marcus Wesche in the text nart area of ​​the Sujet Verlag (Bornstrasse 18, 28195 Bremen). The title of the reading, "A bracelet that glitters in the sun", comes from a poem of the poetry band "Wilna words" by Schirin Nowrousian, who was published in 2022. On May 30th, the author will read from him for the first time in Bremen. In addition, poems from the "glass feud" are read, 2019 in the subject…

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West-Eastern Diwan e.V. “… floating between the worlds…” With Professor Axel Dunker The Orient still appears to many as a mythical world from a thousand and a night, a dream of wisdom, wealth and eroticism. At the same time, however, it is also a projection surface of European fears and object of power fantasies. To date, there is the idea of ​​the Orient as a “other world” in literature, in children's books, films and pictures, filled with exoticly fantastic and partly reproachful ideas and pictures. Orient images also run through the literature of the…

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