In Focus: Conflict:ed – how to deal with war & conflict

06.July.2023 | Online
Register via info@revolutionale.de

Together with a representative of the women’s movement of the Puno region and Juan Chilón (leader of the Quechua indigenous people and sub-prefect of the district of Cajamarca) we want to get into conversation and find out what the background of the current political crisis in Peru is and what can be expected from the movement politically until the end of the year? More info!

The event will be moderated by Amanda Luna Tacunan (education consultant and activist).

The event will be held online at Zoom in SPANISH WITH GERMAN TRANSLATION

August 30. 2023 at 19:30 in the garden of theLiteraturhaus Leipzig | GERMAN

Moderation: Sarah Miriam Lutzemann (Managing Director & Owner kohsie Diversity Bookstore)
FREE

About „die verbrechen“ [Reading in German]

“we will read detonation backwards.” Words can do a lot in Ronya Othmann’s long-awaited first book of poetry. They know no boundaries for times, desires, and nations. They salvage and mourn the buried stories of life between all conventions and cultures. Resistant and at the same time at every point unprotected and intimate, these existential poems carry a new tone into the present. The inhuman crimes of the world and pure happiness, the strangeness of one’s own life and never-ending homesickness come together in all that “you know about when you close your eyes.”

RONYA OTHMANN was born in Munich in 1993 and lives in Leipzig. She has received, among others, the Caroline Schlegel Prize for Essay Writing, the Open Mike Poetry Prize, the Gertrud Kolmar Prize, and the Audience Award of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition, and has been writing the Import Export column for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung since 2021. In 2020, Hanser published her novel Die Sommer, for which she was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize. ronyaothmann.com

About „Über Wasser und Tote“ [reading in German]

Dan Thy Nguyen’s poetry collection Über Wasser und Tote attempts to create a new form of humanism in which one can get rid of one’s own spread of hatred, nourished by death, flight and trauma. Things that seemed impossible to own or luxurious to people before they arrived in Germany are now not enough for you. Nguyen tries to admit the ambivalent feelings of anger and grief that arise in the process, but also their validity and expiration date. He speaks of a right to forget.

DAN THY NGUYEN is a freelance theater director, actor, writer and singer in Hamburg. He has worked on various productions at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Kampnagel, Mousonturm Frankfurt, MDR and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, among others. In 2014 he developed and produced the play “Sonnenblumenhaus” about the pogrom of Rostock -Lichtenhagen, which won the “Hörnixe” in 2015 in its radio play version and is still played at various institutions. Since 2020 he leads the Hamburg festival “fluctoplasma – 96h Kunst Diskurs Diversität” with his production company Studio Marshmallow and he is deputy board member of the LAG Kinder- und Jugendkultur Hamburg. In 2021, together with the entire ensemble, he received the German Radio Play Award for his acting performance. danthy.net

Sarah Miriam Lutzemann is the owner of kohsie Diversity Buchhandlung in Halle (Saale). In her assortment she gives visibility to female, inter and non-binary authors who embed feminist and intersectional perspectives in stories, treat discrimination and privilege reflectively and thus enrich our reading and lives.

Sarah also participates in public discourses and makes her capacities available in and beyond kohsie to fight with others against unfreedom, such as through moderating, speaking, participating in panel discussions, and organizing networking meetings.

07.September.2023 , 7 pm in the DenkmalWerkstatt (Kupfergasse 2)
A presentation by Adopt a Revolution

FREE

It seems surprising: dissidents of the former civil rights movement in the GDR and activists of the Syrian revolution in 2011 have shared experiences! This was demonstrated by an impressive exchange project conducted by the German-Syrian human rights organization Adopt a Revolution. The East German-Syrian exchange opens up new perspectives of solidarity with the uprisings of the Arab Spring, which were thought to have been forgotten and from whose suppression so many people who fled to Germany are still suffering today. For them, the war in Syria is by no means over: even here, in exile, they are exposed to the repression of their regime. What domestic and foreign policy challenges do Syrian refugees face today? And how can we connect with each other in the here and now on the basis of our different revolutionary histories and develop perspectives for a lived, common solidarity?

We as Adopt a Revolution would like to share our experiences in German-Syrian solidarity work and discuss these issues with you.

With Marisa Raiser from the #DefundAssad campaign and Maria Hartmann from the East German-Syrian Exchange Project.

8. September 2023, 12 pm – 5 pm atVolkshochschule Leipzig | GERMAN
A Workshop byBürgerrecht.Akademie der VHS Leipzig

So called “Stammtischparolen”? Everyone knows what is meant. Who doesn’t know them, the slogans uttered in public transport, at work or in the family? But what can we do to counter them? Why do we usually only think of the best arguments afterwards? In this seminar, counter-positions are sought and discussed. Not only will we learn about political issues, but we will also practice speaking skills and fluency, strengthen our self-confidence and give us the courage to defend our own opinions in the face of opposition.

Registration is needed

October 23, 2023 at 6:00 pm at Literaturhaus Leipzig | ORIGINAL WITH GERMAN SUBTITLES

A reading with the author Franzi von Kempis

Sexist remarks at a Christmas party, anti-vaxxer statements at a birthday party, Islamophobic comments under a Facebook post – we all know situations in which we are confronted with half-truths or a problematic worldview. But what do you say when someone denies climate change, believes in the BRD-GmbH or in a Jewish world conspiracy? Franzi von Kempis provides well-founded arguments and carefully researched facts that everyone understands. So that we feel safer when we want to counter populist, untrue or inflammatory slogans.