Als ganzer Mensch gesehen zu werden. Intervention von Weiter Schreiben | Spätschicht x Ligia Lewis

In the organizer's words:

As part of Spätschicht x Ligia Lewis, three authors living in exile invite you to a reading and a concert in the exhibition Diane Arbus: Constellations.

As part of the Weiter Schreiben project, authors from war and crisis zones bring together different people, art forms, discourse approaches and cultures of remembrance in Berlin art institutions to question established perceptions and perspectives. At the Gropius Bau, three writers respond to the exhibition Diane Arbus: Constellations through literature and performance. Julia Cimafiejeva (Belarus), Abdul Wahid Rafee (Afghanistan) and Sam Zamrik (Syria) have each written a work. Together they will guide the audience through the exhibition space.The texts will be performed in the original languages and translated into German by actress Melika Foroutan.Composer and oud player Nabil Arbaain will accompany the evening with music.

Please register by e-mail to Mirjam Wittig wittig@weiterschreiben.jetzt by November 4 at the latest. The number of participants is limited.

Weiter Schreiben is a literary platform for authors from war and crisis zones. Poetry and prose have been translated, illustrated and published on the online portal since 2017. Weiter Schreiben brings writers in exile together with renowned German-language authors and organizes joint readings.

Julia Cimafiejeva is a writer and translator. She has published volumes of poetry in Belarusian and the book Minsk Diary in English. Her poetry collections have been published in the USA, Germany and Poland. She has been living in exile since 2020, currently as a DAAD art scholarship holder in Berlin.

Abdul Wahid Rafee is an author and human rights activist. Since 2006, he has published six books of short stories and a children's book. In 2022 he received the prize of the Swedish Akram Osman Literature Festival. Abdul Wahid Rafee lives in Berlin.

Sam Zamrik is a trans-queer author and translator. She also works in the field of political education. In 2022, her poetry collection Ich bin nicht was published by Hanser Berlin Verlag, which was selected for the poetry recommendations of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in 2023. Sam Zamrik lives in Berlin.

Nabil Arbaain came to Berlin in 2015. He was a founding member of several bands that brought together classical Arabic music with other musical genres and toured throughout Europe. His solo album From Damascus to Berlin was released in 2020. In 2021 he founded the Arabic Music Institute Berlin.

A joint event of the Gropius Bau and the Weiter Schreiben - Interventionen project, funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

At the event, photos and video recordings may be made in which you could be recognized. By attending, you consent to these recordings being used to communicate the event or exhibition.