INSEL lesen mit Rasha Abbas

In the organizer's words:

Rasha Abbas doesn't really want to write about the war, especially not since she has felt the expectation in Germany that literary texts by a Syrian author must be about the war. Instead, she wants to talk about her homeland and its culture. But the war is omnipresent. It simply cannot be ignored and keeps catching up with her. The collection of stories "A Summary of Everything That Was", from which she will read, is about this ambivalent situation of the exile.

Rasha Abbas was born in Latakia, Syria, in 1984. She worked as a journalist for Syrian television. In 2013, she initially sought refuge from the civil war in Syria in Lebanon. In 2014, she was awarded the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Scholarship for a three-month stay in Stuttgart, which gave her the opportunity to come to Germany and stay. Her first collection of short stories about her life as a Syrian in Germany, "The Invention of German Grammar", was published in 2016.

This was followed in 2018 by "A Summary of Everything That Was". The Maxim Gorki Theater developed a stage version, which was performed in 2022.

Part 1 of the reading series FRIEDEN STADT KRIEG, funded by the Berlin State Center for Political Education

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