AMAN AMAN
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Resisting a linear historical narration, the project embraces a polycentric, long-durational, and relational approach: stories, sounds, and images move across locations and formats, reappearing in altered forms and contexts. From the haunting tunes of amanades and türküs to the solidarities forged between Greek and Turkish workers in Germany; from the post-Ottoman laments of the Café Amans in New York to contemporary voices from the Aegean coast and Anatolia, AMAN AMAN moves between past and present and traces connections across time and space. The project opens up cultural imaginaries that challenge ethnocentric narratives and celebrate shared histories across the Eastern Mediterranean and its diasporas.
Über das Projekt
Anstelle einer linearen historischen Erzählung verfolgt das Projekt einen polyzentrischen, langfristigen und relationalen Ansatz: Geschichten, Klänge und Bilder bewegen und überschneiden sich und werden über verschiedene Orte und Formate hinweg neu aktiviert.
AMAN AMAN bewegt sich zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart und zeichnet Verbindungen über Zeit und Raum hinweg nach: Von den eindringlichen Klängen der Amanedes und Türküs über die Solidaritäten zwischen griechischen und türkischen ArbeiterInnen in Deutschlandundvonden post-osmanischen Klageliedern der Café Amans in New York bis hin zudenzeitgenössischen Stimmen von der Ägäisküste und aus Anatolien.
Das Projekt eröffnet kulturelle Imaginarien, die ethnzentrische Narrative hinterfragen und gemeinsame Geschichten im östlichen Mittelmeerraum und seinen Diasporas feiern.
AMAN AMAN Athens. Kick–Off Event
3 June 2026, 18:00
Goethe-Institut Athen
Kick–Off Event: filía – dostluk – Freundschaft
Garden Party with musical lecture performances, readings, listening sessions, concerts, discussions, DJ Sets
For one summer evening, the Goethe Institute in Athens becomes the setting for a garden party dedicated to friendship. Curated by Habibi Kiosk of the Münchner Kammerspiele, the program includes listening sessions, performances, concerts, discussions, DJ sets, and more. Bringing together artists, musicians, storytellers, and performers, the gathering evolves into a vibrant constellation of encounters, sounds, and shared histories across Greek–Turkish–German realms. All habib(t)is of the city are invited to celebrate friendship through a diverse artistic kaleidoscope shaped by exchange, memory, and cross-cultural connection.
AMAN AMAN BERLIN
12–14 June 2026
SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Lindower str. 20/22, Haus C, 13347, Berlin
Film screenings, listening sessions, concerts, lectures, and culinary interventions
AMAN AMAN comes to life in Berlin with a three-day festival at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA. Through concerts, listening sessions, film screenings, talks, and culinary interventions, the intertwined echoes of the Eastern Mediterranean and the multilayered histories embedded within them become audible, visible, and experientially accessible.
More information soon.
AMAN AMAN MUNICH
23–24 July 2026
Habibi Kiosk, Münchner Kammerspiele, Maximilianstraße 26–28, 80539 Munich
Concerts in collaboration with the İÇ İÇE Music Festival
More information soon.
AMAN AMAN Athens
8 October 2026 – 30 January 2027
TAVROS, 33 Anaxagora Street, 17778 Athens
Exhibition and public program
More information soon.
AMAN AMAN Thessaloniki
12 November 2026
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki
Concerts
More information soon.
AMAN AMAN Izmir
15 November 2026
Concerts
More information soon.
A collaboration between
AMAN AMAN is a project by Goethe-Institut Athen, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, and TAVROS. Further announcements will follow on a series of events in cooperation with Münchner Kammerspiele, Goethe-Institut Izmir, Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, İç İçe – Festival für neue anatolische Musik, Kulturakademie Tarabya, the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, and DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum Frankfurt.
