Musical-literary performance with Persian musician Elshan Ghasimi and writer Michael Kleeberg
Based on classical Persian music and with lyrics that draw on Iranian fairy tales, myths and poems, the musician and writer convey a poetic panorama of one of the world's most important cultural regions, which is currently in the spotlight due to the Iranian revolution against the mullah regime.
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Michael Kleeberg & Elshan Ghasimi
Ghasimi and Kleeberg do not address burning issues such as flight, exile, oppression of women and migration directly and polemically, but choose an allegorical, poetic approach that gives expression to enduring humanistic values: friendship and encounter, music and love, and the hope for solidarity. Music and words do not stand side by side, but interweave improvisationally to create a very special experience.
Elshan Ghasimi (born in 1981 in Isfahan, Iran) is a virtuoso of the Persian long-necked lute tar and setar, composer, performance artist and teacher. Language, music, physicality and dramatic expression form the foundation of her work, which also extends to the visual arts.
Michael Kleeberg (born in Stuttgart in 1959) is a freelance writer and translator based in Berlin. He has received numerous awards for his novels. Among other honours, he received the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize from the city of Bad Homburg for Vaterjahre (Father Years) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Literature Prize in 2016 for his entire oeuvre. In 2025, he was awarded the Prize of the International Hermann Hesse Society.
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Accessibility
The venue is wheelchair accessible and has appropriate toilet facilities.
Dates
February 2026
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