Open Air Reading with Fatma Aydemir and Enrico Ippolito

Open Air the two authors and friends Fatma Aydemir and Enrico Ippolito read from their novels “Dschinns” (2022) and “Was rot war” (2021).

Hüseyin has worked in Germany for thirty years, and now he is finally fulfilling his dream: a condominium in Istanbul. Only to die of a heart attack the day they moved in. For the funeral, his family travels from Germany to join him. Fatma Aydemir’s great social novel “Djinns” tells the story of six fundamentally different people who happen to be related to each other. Full of force and beauty, the novel asks about the family as an entity, looking deep into the history of past decades and far ahead.

Enrico Ippolito tells the story of two women: United in the struggle for political ideals, divided by an unforgivable betrayal. From the Rome of the 1970s to the Cologne of the present: the story of a friendship in which political upheavals have unmistakably inscribed themselves. A book about a great love, female friendship, the Italian Communist Parties and queer life.

Fatma Aydemir was born in 1986 in Karlsruhe. She lives in Berlin and is a columnist and editor at the taz. Her debut novel “Ellbogen” was published by Hanser in 2017, for which she received the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize and the Franz Hessel Prize. In 2019, she co-edited the anthology “Your Homeland is Our Nightmare” with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. Her second novel “Dschinns” (Hanser, 2022) was awarded the Robert Gernhardt Prize and the LiteraTour Nord 2023 Prize.

Enrico Ippolito, born 1982, lives in Berlin and is a journalist and author. From 2011 to 2015, he worked at the taz in Berlin. He was head of the culture department at SPIEGEL ONLINE from December 2015 to November 2020 and is now a writer at SPIEGEL. Most recently, his short story “Insult” appeared in the anthology “Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum”. In 2020, his debut novel “What was red” was published.

The reading is a cooperation of the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Bremen, the Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen, globale° – Festival für grenzüberschreitende Literatur and the Kulturkioskcafé Das Beet as part of the Bremerhavener Kultursommer.

The bed is sponsored by the Bremerhaven Cultural Office, Erlebnis Bremerhaven, Wohnen in Nachbarschaften and the Zolli-Initiative e.V.

There will be a book table on site from Hübner Bookstore. If it rains uncomfortably, we will move to the premises of the Chamber of Employees at short notice.

Organizers: Bremen State Agency for Civic Education, Bremen Chamber of Employees, globale° – Festival for Cross-Border Literature Cooperation partner: beet & Kulturamt Bremerhaven in the context of the Bremerhavener Kultursommer