Fikri Anıl Altıntaş liest aus „Zwischen uns liegt August“

In the organizer's words:

Zwischen uns liegt August tells the story of a Turkish-German family. An adult son loses his mother. In the weeks leading up to her death, everyday life sets the rhythm: cooking, waiting in hospital corridors, hoping and mourning. Stories creep into everyday life. The ones that have always been told and the ones that shine through behind them. What does the son, at home in Germany, know about his mother's youth in Turkey?

While Anil and his family in the present try to understand the impact their mother's approaching death has had on them all, Mürüvvet, the woman his mother once was, searches for ways back to life in Aydin in western Turkey in 1973. In the midst of political upheaval, she does everything she can to stop her father from taking her to Germany. She fears for her dreams, until the thought of Germany will not let her go. A novel about saying goodbye to Turkey and making a new start in Germany, about the often unbearable distance to those closest to us - and about the desperate desire to catch up with love.

Fikri Anıl Altıntaş, born in 1992 in Wetzlar, lives and works in Berlin. In his texts, including for ZEIT, taz, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, ZDF and Berliner Ensemble, he deals with masculinities, anti-feminism and the (de)construction of non-white, Muslim-read masculinities in Germany. His debut novel "Im Morgen wächst ein Birnbaum" was published in 2023.

The event will be moderated by Emily Grunert, Literaturbüro NRW e.V- and takes place in cooperation with the Düsseldorf Central Library as part of the Sundays in the Library program.
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.