On September 12, 2021, author Widad Nabi will be reading as part of the Poets Corner Treptow-Köpenick program between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. in Berlin. As part of this event, more than 40 poets and musicians will perform across the Berlin districts. The readings take place in German and in the respective original language with translation. The event will be moderated by Vera Kurlenian and accompanied by Dietrich Petzold and Hakan Tuğrul. The message is very clear: there is room for poetry everywhere - whether in libraries or gardens…

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Wir laden herzlich zur Online-Lesung von Gerrit Wustmanns Weltliteratur ein. Am 15. September 2021 um 19:30 Uhr liest Gerrit Wustmann über Zoom aus seinem Buch, Weltliteratur - Warum wir ein neues Literaturverständnis brauchen. Maryam Aras moderiert die vom Sujet Verlag veranstaltete Lesung. Hier ist der Einladungslink zur Zoom-Veranstaltung: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82537470351?pwd=Q0tCWXk4QXNkUFAxa3ZhVlNwTG9Kdz09 Weltliteratur "Wo Weltliteratur draufsteht, ist Westliteratur drin.“ Egal ob es um Rezensionen im Feuilleton geht, um Uni-Seminare, um Bestenlisten der 'wichtigsten' Werke oder um die Lektüren im Schulunterricht: Das literarische Schaffen von Autor*innen aus…

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We are looking forward to the book premiere of the new book of poetry by the Bremen author Gunther Gerlach on September 16th in the Gröpelingen Bremen City Library at 7:00 p.m. In his new volume, the Bremen author and artist Gunther Gerlach combines simple, expressive brush drawings with symbolic language rich in metaphors. Together with ...and throws into the sea the silver seeds of the stars and lights that rise from shadows form the voices of the author's 450-page trilogy of poems and prose deeper in space. The book premiere…

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The Cologne writer Doğan Akhanlı recently became known to a wider audience through his arrest in Granada, the report of his arrest ordered by the Erdogan regime while on vacation in Spain and the subsequent release thanks to mediation by the EU. His epic Madonnas last dream, published in 2006, is a fascinatingly multi-layered text that describes the darkest chapter of German history from an unusual perspective: Akhanlı gives an insight into the character of the Turkish writer Sabahattin Ali and his relationship to the Jewish diseuse Maria Puder…

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We look forward to the book premiere of Der Andere by author Martin Bührig on September 22nd at the Franz Leuwer bookstore in Bremen at 7:00 p.m. Martin Bührig's poems belong neither to daily political poetry nor to political poetry in general. They stand in the centuries-old tradition of poetry of private concern, which is inherent in all people who live in their respective situations and times. The poems are addressed to a you. They are love poems. And the diversity of love is reflected…

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My house, your house and our house: the Persian library in the main library We are looking forward to the event Dem Wort die Freiheit on September 24th, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. in the main library on the Gurtel in Vienna. Nasim Khaksar, born in Abadan/Iran, is an Iranian-Dutch writer. He will present his newly published book Between Two Doors. Fahime Farsaie, born in Tehran/Iran, is an Iranian-German author, journalist and human rights activist. She will read from her novel One Tuesday, my mother decided to become German (Dittrich Verlag). Both…

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