CANCELED – picture book cinema 'I would love to be a cement mixer'

Bremen City Library Am Wall 201, Bremen, Bremen

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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Reading and concert with Kurt Scharf and Cymin Samawatie

James-Simon-Gallery Bodestrasse, Berlin, Berlin

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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Book premiere Ulrike Marie Hille: In dreams the animals stand still

Bremen City Library Am Wall 201, Bremen, Bremen

We are looking forward to the book premiere of the new book of poetry Im Traumen, the animals stand still by our Bremen author Ulrike Marie Hille. The event will take place on December 16 at 6 p.m. in the Wall Hall of the Bremen City Library, Am Wall 201. Prof. Dr. Gert Sautermeister take over. In Dreams, the animals stand still, Ulrike Marie Hille takes her readership with her on her travels. With a view of the world, the lyrical I travels through "poetic landscapes" until it finds itself in the…

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Online talk "Raqqa am Rhein" with Jabbar Abdullah

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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Reading with Angelika Sinn: 'Between Heaven and Tündük'

Black sea gallery Am Schwarzen Meer 121, Bremen, Bremen

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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Commemoration event and book presentation by Ulrike Gies

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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Reading with Amir Shaheen in Vienna

Main Library on the Belt Urban-Loritz-Platz 2a, Vienna

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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Bremen speaks: Opening of the special exhibition

Focke Museum Schwachhauser Heerstrasse 240, Bremen

Am 04. März um 19 Uhr findet die Eröffnung zur Sonderausstellung "Bremen spricht" statt. Moderation Dr. Bora Aksen, Musik Marcia Bittencourt 7.500 verschiedene Sprachen gibt es auf der Welt. In Bremen werden 80 davon gesprochen. Die Ausstellung „Bremen spricht“ zeigt vom 5. März bis 29. Mai welche Sprachen das sind und wo in Bremen sie gesprochen werden – von Arabisch über Plattdeutsch und Gebärdensprache bis Zulu. Anhand verschiedener extra angefertigter Karten entsteht ein aktuelles Sprachporträt Bremens. Neben den Karten gibt es auch Bücher,

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Reading with Fariba Vafi and Amir Hassan Cheheltan

City Library Düren Stefan-Schwer-Strasse 4 - 6, Düren

A reading with Fariba Vafi and Amir Hassan Cheheltan, moderated by Jutta Himmelreich A cooperation between Heinrich-Böll-Haus Langenbroich e.V. and the Düren Kultur public library Registration: boell-haus@düren.de Admission is free! 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 her among the top 10 modern writers in the country. She has been awarded the prestigious Huschang Golschiri Prize and the Yalda Prize, as well as receiving…

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Book presentation “KZ-Nr. 32730 - Spiros' Odyssey”

Memorial Bunker Valentin Rekumer Siel, Bremen

On March 24, 2022, Kostas Chalemos' book KZ no. 32730 - Spiros' Odyssey presented in the Memorial Bunker Valentin. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. Read by Katharina Guleikoff, commented by Marcus Meyer. The Athenian journalist Kostas Chamelos tells the odyssey of the Greek partisan Spiros Pasaloglou. Just 18 years old, Pasaloglou was arrested during a raid, imprisoned in the Chaidari camp and interrogated at the notorious Gestapo headquarters on Athens' Merlin Street. Spiros witnesses fellow inmates being abused and murdered. Every day he fears…

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