Ausverkauft: Der Literarische Salon mit Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin

Die Veranstaltung ist ausverkauft, es wird keine Abendkasse mehr geben.

Day after day, we read and hear about irregular migration, which must be combated - but who are the people stranded on Lampedusa, swimming through the border river to Greece at night, almost suffocating in a truck container - or hiding in one of the corners of Ebertplatz? And what do we know about the war in Sudan, the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of our time, with twelve million people now on the run? Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, who himself managed to flee to Austria in 2012 after being arrested, brings us so close to "irregular migration" that we can hear the heartbeats, feel the exhaustion, smell the sweat of fear and get to know the tricks. His masterful novel "The Raven Who Loved Me" tells the story of two Sudanese who lose sight of each other when the police break up the so-called jungle of Calais, a city of corrugated iron and plastic tarpaulins. It is not a story in which some are good and others bad, some victims and others perpetrators. No, everything is as complicated and convoluted as reality itself, and sometimes, yes, victims become perpetrators or vice versa. Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, born in 1963, is one of the best-known and most translated writers in Sudan, although his books were not allowed to be published there for a long time - and can no longer be published because of the war.