Literary Reading in German language

Karosh Taha © Havin Al-Sindy, Lena Gorelik © Charlotte Troll, Maryam Aras © Fatima Khan

Karosh Taha, Lena Gorelik und Maryam Aras will read published and unpublished texts.

The authors are part of a group scholarship at Schloss Wiepersdorf which includes a writing workshop and the developing of a concept for a literature festival. The authors and their writing are linked by the search for aesthetic forms that capture narratives and realities outside of mainstream society in literary form.

Karosh Taha will read from her current novel manuscript, which, based on the doppelganger theory of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, poses the question of individuality, reality construction, and narrating. Lena Gorelik will read from her novel “Wer wir sind” (published by Rowohlt in 2022), in which she tells in impressive language about the emigration of her Jewish-Russian family from St. Petersburg to Germany, about the disappointed euphoria about the West, and also about the estrangement of parents and daughter. Asal Dardan reads the text “Alle meine Kinder” from her collection of essays “Betrachtungen einer Barbarin” (Hoffmann und Campe, 2021). She uses the NSU trial in Munich to reflect on German families and German childhoods and raises questions about the responsibilities that people in this society bear for each other. Maryam Aras reads her essay “68, ein deutsches Unschuldsmoment” (COLLATERAL, 2021), in which she uses her father's political biography to unravel the emergence of the transnational Iranian student opposition from the narrative of the German 1968.

Admission free
Wiepersdorf - Bettina-von-Arnim-Straße 13, 14913 Niederer Fläming

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