Dschinns
We look forward to welcoming you to our first round of Meet the Author in September after the summer break. We are especially looking forward to our next guest Fatma Aydemir, whose novel
Dschinns we highly recommend. Whether you spend your summer at the beach, on the balcony or in the office, with this book you will immediately forget what is happening around you. We are also looking forward to welcoming Schayan Riaz to the group, who will moderate the conversation with Fatma Aydemir. Shayan Riaz studied film studies and cultural journalism and is project manager for cultural education at the Goethe Institute in Hamburg. He interviewed Fatma Aydemir for Qantara.de in June. You can read the interview
here.
Everyone is welcome to participate in the online event, it is not required to have already read the book. Participation is free of charge, the discussion will be held in German.
Dschinns
Vielleicht ist Familie ja nichts anderes als das, ein Gebilde aus Geschichten und Geschichten und Geschichten. Aber was bedeuten dann die Leerstellen in ihnen, das Schweigen?/Maybe family is nothing more than that, a construction of stories and stories and stories. But then what do the empty spaces in them mean, the silence?
Hüseyin has worked in Germany for 30 years, and now he can finally fulfill his dream: a condominium in Istanbul - only to die of a heart attack on move-in day. His family travels to his funeral from Germany. Fatma Aydemir's great social novel tells the story of six fundamentally different people who happen to be related to each other. They all carry their own baggage with them: secrets, desires, wounds. What unites them, however, is the feeling that someone is watching them in Hüseyin's apartment. Full of power and beauty, "Dschinns" asks questions about the structure of the family by looking deep into the history of the past decades and far ahead.
Fatma Aydemir
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Fatma Aydemir was born in Karlsruhe in 1986. She lives in Berlin and is a columnist and editor at the taz.
Her debut novel
Ellbogen was published by Hanser in 2017, for which she received the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize and the Franz Hessel Prize. In 2019 she co-edited the anthology
Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. Her second novel
Dschinns (Hanser, 2022) was awarded the Robert Gerhardt Prize.
Registration
Register here:
Registration Meet the Author #20
You will then receive a link to the online live session.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
Everyone who wants to read and discover German-language literature, meet authors and share their reading experience with others - even if you haven't read the book yet. The book club takes place in German. All participants should have sufficient language skills to read and discuss in German.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
We use Zoom for our meeting. We recommend using a headset as speakers can create annoying echo effects. Participation is possible from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device. To participate, simply follow the link that we will send you after registration and register in the room.
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