Event as part of the 30th Schwerin Literature Days
AUGUST BETWEEN US - Reading with Fikri Anıl Altıntaş
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 for ZEIT, taz and Deutschlandfunk Kultur , among others, 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.
Moderation: Ronja Kindler, theater educator
Monday
13. October 2025
7:30 pm
Kulturforum Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, Puschkinstraße 12
Admission
Box office: €14.00 / advance booking: €12.00* (plus fee if applicable)
Organizer
Kulturbüro der State capital Schwerin
