Maryam Aras

Eine Veranstaltung des Literaturhaus Köln

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 her literary essay "Dinosaur Child" (Claassen), 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.

Moderation: Fatima Khan.

An event of the Literaturhaus Köln.
Event partner: Claassen, DIWAN Cologne