Diese Veranstaltung muss aufgrund der aktuellen Entwicklung der Corona-Pandemie leider ABGESAGT werden! Am 03. Dezember 2021 um 19:00 Uhr lädt die Hauptbücherei Wien zur Lesung "Dem Wort die Freiheit XXXIV - Eine Bilinguale Lesung in Deutsch und Persisch: Der Duft jenes Flusses" ein, bei der neben Amir Shaheen noch vier weitere Dichter*innen ihre Texte in Form von Lyrik und Prosa präsentieren. Sie stammen aus unterschiedlichen Kulturen und Geographien und transportieren unterschiedliche Sprachbilder und Gedankenwelten. Sie zeigen in ihren Werken eine poetische Auseinandersetzung mit…

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On December 7th at 7:30 p.m. there will be an online reading via Zoom in cooperation with Litprom e.V. The subsequent discussion with the author will be moderated by Gerrit Wustmann and interpreted by Jutta Himmelreich. Faribā Vafī was born in 1962 in Tabriz, the capital of the province of East Azerbaijan in north-west Iran. She currently lives in Tehran and is one of Iran's most popular contemporary authors. Iranian critics place them among the top…

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On December 13, 2021 at 7:30 p.m., Gerrit Wustmann will read from his knowledgeable essay Weltliteratur how one-sided our view of so-called world literature is promotes a new understanding of literature in conversation with Maryam Aras. The event will take place in the Literaturhaus Köln. Gerrit Wustmann, born in Cologne in 1982, is a freelance writer and journalist. He has published ten books to date and his poetry has been translated into numerous languages…

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Unfortunately, this event has to be CANCELED due to the current development of the corona pandemic! On December 15, 2021 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. there will be an Arabic-German picture book cinema with our book I would love to be a cement mixer. The event is organized as part of the Arabic Language Week in the Bremen City Library and is a great event, especially for families with children aged 4 and over. Noise, Boing, Shower... That's what it sounds like when a small demolition excavator goes in search of happiness. In the…

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Am 15. Dezember 2021 um 18:30 Uhr wird Kurt Scharf im Auditorium der James-Simon-Galerie am Pergamon-Museum aus der deutschen Übersetzung von Forough Farrochsāds Lyrikband Jene Tage lesen. Die Veranstaltung findet im Rahmen der Sonderausstellung "Iran - Kunst und Kultur aus Fünf Jahrtausenden" statt und wird vom Feunde des Museums für Islamische Kunst im Pergamonmuseum e.V. organisiert. Für musikalische Begleitung sorgt das Cymin Samawatie Trio. Kurt Scharf wurde 1940 geboren und war Stellvertretender Leiter des Goethe-Instituts in Teheran sowie der Leiter des Goethe-Instituts in…

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On December 17th at 6:00 p.m. there will be an online reading including a discussion with our author Jabbar Abdullah, which is organized by Action New Neighbors. Excerpts from his new novel Raqqa am Rhein will be read and the author will be spoken to about life in Syria, the revolution and the "Calls for Humanism" that rang out all over the country in 2011, and asked what moved him, his memories to write down. And what art and literature can contribute to reappraisal and peace. The reading will be Jörg…

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On January 29, 2022 at 6:00 p.m., our author Angelika Sinn will read from her Kyrgyz travel journal Zwischen Himmel und Tündük in the GALLERY on the black sea, while Isabel Pauer's drawings of Kyrgyzstan will be presented at the same time. Tilman Rothermel will welcome and introduce the pictures. Meanwhile, Maren Ernst provides information about the Kyrgyz project Uplift-Aufwind. An invitation to a symposium for artists and writers takes the author Angelika Sinn to a yurt camp on the lonely mountain lake Issyk Kul. But less the exchange among artists…

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On January 31st, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. there will be an online memorial event for our author Ulrike Gies, who died in 2020. At the same time, her book Schnuffelstoff, which was published posthumously, will be read for the first time. Publisher Madjid Mohit, author Inge Buck and director of LitQ Cornelius Kopf-Finke will read texts and give speeches. Ulrike Gies was born in Dortmund in 1953 and studied sociology, journalism and philosophy in Münster. She has been a writer since 1980, initially with prose and later also with poetry. After many…

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On March 4, 2022 at 7:00 p.m., the Vienna Main Library invites you to the reading "Freedom to the Word XXXIV - A bilingual reading in German and Persian: The scent of that river", in which, in addition to Amir Shaheen, four other poets* will give their Present texts in the form of poetry and prose. They come from different cultures and geographies and transport different language images and worlds of thought. In their works, they show a poetic examination of themes such as origin, past, childhood, longing, separation, migration, exile and a wealth of languages. Included…

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