Palästinensische Literatur. Abdalrahman Alqalaq und Tanasgol Sabbagh sprechen über Dichtung

He wants to talk about wings, but he has to talk about pain. The Palestinian writer Abdalrahman Alqalaq was born in 1997 in a district of Damascus. It was created after 1948 as a camp for displaced persons from Palestine. "Rite of Passage" is the title of his book, which he dedicated to his father, who died too early "from the misery of his homelessness". And this is just one of the losses that his poems and prose tell of. The longing for peace is conveyed intensely when Alqalaq tells of a life. A life that oscillates between the promises of an unlived past and the unfulfilled hopes of the present exile and has to find its way between the shadows of the dead.

Against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, "Rite of Passage" takes on a topicality that the author did not see coming, and the book was written as an expression of extreme vulnerability and emotional and social wounding. With his literature, Abdalrahman Alqalaq realizes what Paul Celan said in 1960 in his speech for the Georg Büchner Prize: "The poem wants to reach another, it needs this other, it needs a counterpart." With "Rite of Passage", Abdalrahman Alqalaq seeks this conversation and tenderly and consistently puts people in the spotlight. He talks about his work and its meaning with sound and word artist Tanasgol Sabbagh, co-founder of the artist collective "parallelgesellschaft".

In spoken German with interpretation into German Sign Language (DGS).

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