Amir Shaheen Reading – EINSTELLSRAUM e.V. (Hamburg)

Setting room e.V. Wandsbeker Chaussee 11, Hamburg

It is with great pleasure that we would like to draw your attention to a reading by our author Amir Shaheen, which will take place on December 20, 2018 in Hamburg. The event is part of a special exhibition: shattered and smashed into countless points of quicksilver... * Turn where, against, by what, for what? Compaction next to it, turning over it, porous cushion in the subsoil. After arriving in the EINSTELLSRAUM you will be able to see the following, - groove for fragments with templates, - far below an individual soft foam pillow - tightrope walk of different types - landscape formations with porous wings…

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Lecture: Mahmood Falaki – “Goethe and Hafiz”

State Academy Ochsenhausen Castle District 7, Ochsenhausen, Baden-Württemberg

Am 11. Januar wird der Autor Mahmood Falaki, dessen Bücher "Tödliche Fremde" und "Ich bin Ausländer und das ist auch gut so", sowie einige andere bei uns im Sujet Verlag erschienen sind, einen Vortrag zum Thema "Goethe und Hafis", worüber er auch seine Doktorarbeit schrieb, halten. Falaki, welcher 1951 im Norden Persiens geboren wurde, studierte zunächst Chemie und Bibliothekswissenschaft im Iran. Während der Schah-Zeit wurde er wegen seiner politisch-literarischen Aktivitäten zu drei Jahren Haft verurteilt. Nach der Übernahme der Herrschaft durch die Mullahs

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Author reading with Pedro Kadivar (Melzow)

Half-timbered yard Melzow Stegelitzer Str. 11, Melzow

On January 12th there will be an author reading in memory of Heiner Müller, who would have turned 90 on January 9th. The theater legend once lured the Iranian theater director Pedro Kadivar from Paris to Berlin. The latter will take part in the evening in the form of a short portrait of his theater colleague. Pedro Kadivar in Sujet Verlag: Little Book of Migration

Reading: "Waiting" by Eberhard Pfleiderer and Sandra Juráš (Bremerhaven)

G. v. Haven photo framing and gallery Mayor Schmidt Str. 117, Bremerhaven

Look forward to an exciting reading with the author Eberhard Pfleiderer and the photographer Sandra Jurás! We spend a large part of our lives waiting. So it's high time to take a closer look at this topic! Sandra Juras and Eberhard Pfleiderer do this in two ways: with photos and text. With unerring ease and a love of surprising twists and turns, Pfleiderer engages in this strange state of waiting with relish, impatience or even with an ironic smile and says: Waiting is not a blank space –…

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Lecture: Goethe and Hafiz – Mahmood Falaki

Kulturwerk Frankfurt Middle Hasenpfad (in the courtyard), Frankfurt am Main

Wir freuen uns, Euch den nächsten Vortrag von Mahmood Falaki über "Goethe und Hafis" präsentieren zu dürfen! Falaki, welcher 1951 im Norden Persiens geboren wurde, studierte zunächst Chemie und Bibliothekswissenschaft im Iran. Während der Schah-Zeit wurde er wegen seiner politisch-literarischen Aktivitäten zu drei Jahren Haft verurteilt. Nach der Übernahme der Herrschaft durch die Mullahs musste er das Land verlassen. Seit 1983 lebt er in Deutschland und seit 1986 in Hamburg. Er absolvierte sein Studium der Germanistik und Iranistik an der Universität Hamburg. Seine

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Gunther Gerlach – exhibition and reading

Marble hall Fabrikenufer 115, Bremen

As part of the International Celebration of Contemporary Sculpture, an exhibition by the sculptor Gunther Gerlach will take place in the Marble Hall in Bremen on January 27th. Since 2010, over 15,000 art lovers of contemporary 3-dimensional sculpture have joined the non-profit network. The events planned worldwide will take place simultaneously at more than 60 different locations in studios, museums, galleries or art academies and offer a large platform for the exchange of ideas. The Marble Hall in the historic Kaffee HAG building on Fabrikenufer provides the setting for an exhibition in Bremen…

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Book premiere: "Waiting" by Eberhard Pfleiderer (Bremen)

Bookstore Franz Leuwer Am Wall 171, Bremen

Look forward to an exciting reading with the author Eberhard Pfleiderer and the photographer Sandra Jurás! We spend a large part of our lives waiting. So it's high time to take a closer look at this topic! Sandra Juras and Eberhard Pfleiderer do this in two ways: with photos and text. The two of them tackled the exciting topic of WAITING together. The photographer Juras created suitable photos for Pfleiderer's texts; but these photos are not an accessory to the texts,…

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Reading Amir Shaheen – “Residual light traces

Bookstore Sattler Schwachhauser Heerstrasse 13, Bremen

On February 14, there will be a reading of Amir Shaheen's book of poetry, "Light Traces Restlicht", which has just been published this year, in the Sattler bookstore. Amir Shaheen follows the tracers of light in our time and also detects the residual light on darker days. Seas, roads, departures and farewells, elapsing and badly used days, the time that one never had or that still remains, the ephemeral, the futile, home or being homeless are recurring images and motifs in this collection. Beyond observation and description, about experiences or…

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Reading with Amir Shaheen - "Residual Light Traces" and more

Altena City Library Marktstrasse 14-16, Altena

Amir Shaheen will give a reading with his sixth volume of poetry on March 1st in his home town of Altena. Divided into three groups, it collects around sixty poems, including the poem "Sediment" for the first time in a book, for which Amir Shaheen was awarded the postpoetry.nrw prize in November 2018. You can get tickets in the Katherlöh bookshop or in the Altena public library. Amir Shaheen follows the tracers of light in our time and also detects the residual light on darker days. Seas, roads, departures and farewells, running away…

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Reading with Nahid Keshavarz – “Refugee Café”

Allerweltshaus Körnerstr. 77, Cologne-Ehrenfeld

Am 7. März findet im Allerweltshaus (Köln) eine Lesung mit Nahid Keshavarz und ihrem Buch "Flüchtlingscafé" statt. Es wird auf Farsi und auf Deutsch gelesen. Die Anthologie „Flüchtlingscafé“ ist eine Sammlung wundersamer Alltagsgeschichten von unterschiedlichen Menschen. Im Vordergrund des Buches steht das Leben als Migrant mit all seinen Schmerzen, seiner Freude und seiner Leidenschaft. Die Erzählungen von Nahid Keshavarz lassen den Leser in den Alltag und die Gedanken von unterschiedlichsten Charakteren schlüpfen. Die Erzählungen handeln von Ehepaaren, die mit Kommunikationsproblemen hadern, den

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