Fikri Anıl Altıntaş: Zwischen uns liegt August – Book launch with Literaturhaus Berlin

With a reading by Fikri Anıl Altıntaş, followed by a talk with Josephine Apraku

Zwischen uns liegt August tells the story of a Turkish-German family. An adult son loses his mother. In the weeks before her death, everyday life sets the rhythm: cooking, waiting in hospital corridors, hoping and mourning. Stories creep into everyday life. Those that have always been told and those that shine through behind them. What does the son, at home in Germany, know about his mother's youth in Turkey? While Anıl and his family in the present try to understand the impact of their mother's approaching death on all of them, Mürüvvet, the woman who was once his mother, searches for a way to live in Aydın in western Turkey in 1973. Amid political upheaval, she does everything she can to prevent her father from taking her to Germany.

Li-Be für die Stadt

From Spandau to Rudow, from Pankow to Steglitz – Berlin, here we come! The Literaturhaus Berlin is moving around the city for 18 months. While our building at Fasanenstraße 23 is getting a lift and new toilets, we are touring all of Berlin's districts under the motto ‘Li-Be for the city’.
Readings in the planetarium, book launches above the rooftops of Berlin – the city will be our stage – join us!

Fikri Anıl Altıntaş, born in Wetzlar in 1992, lives and works in Berlin. In his writing, 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 (A Pear Tree Grows in the Morning), was published in 2023.

Josephine Apraku is an African studies scholar and works as an author, trainer and moderator in Berlin.