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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As part of the regions' festival, an open brunch will take place in Braunau am Inn on June 15th. At the Inn Bridge, which has often been blocked by the police to control the migration in the past, there is the opportunity from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. to discuss what wishes and hopes from the "summer of migration" have been implemented and what could be even better. The following day, a joint reading will be found in the Zimt cultural center from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.…

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Details: Presentation and reading of the scholarship holders as part of a panel discussion. Link! Date: July 11, 2025 Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Event hall at LCB (Literary Colloquium Berlin) at Sandwerder 5 D-14109 Berlin

  Date: September 1, 2025 Time: 4:30 p.m. Location: Graal-Müritz / Rhododendronpark Moderation: Stefan Weidner Language: German Admission: 12 € / reduced 6 € Details: Reading as part of a literature program with several authors. Link!

Am 14. September um 15:30 Uhr veranstaltet der Frankfurter Künstlerclub eine Lesung im Nebbienschen Gartenhaus. Nassir Djafari wird aus seinem Roman "Der Großcousin" vorlesen. Zusätzlich wird auch ein musikalischer Special-Guest auftreten. Mehr Informationen zu "Der Großcousin" gibt es hier. Mehr Informationen zu Nassir Djafari gibt es hier. Mehr Informationen zur Veranstaltung gibt es hier.

  Date: September 15, 2025 Time: 6:00 p.m. Location: Documentation Center Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation, Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin