MARYAM ARAS »DINOSAURIERKIND«

During a movie night, Maryam Aras discovers her father on the big screen. He is sitting on the floor among other students at a protest event against the Shah's visit to Berlin in 1967. For her, it is the beginning of a search for traces - for her childhood in the Iranian diaspora in Cologne, the certainty that her father cannot travel to Iran, the story of his and her politicization.

In this literary essay, Maryam Aras writes the political biography of her father, drawing narrative lines between the 1953 coup d'état in Iran, a transnational 1968 movement, the working-class district of Mülheim in Cologne and a family history in which the luxury of going through life apolitically never existed.

Maryam Aras was born in Cologne in 1982, where she still lives today. She studied Islamic Studies, English and Political Science in Cologne and Bonn. She writes literary criticism and essays and examines patterns of reception in German-language literary studies and feature articles from a power-critical perspective. In 2022, she was appointed to the jury for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. She received a working grant from the Kunststiftung NRW for "Dinosaurierkind".

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