Bahram Moradi »Das Gewicht der anderen«

March 31, 2026 / 7.30 pm / Literature Café

Bahram Moradi "The Weight of Others"

Bahram Moradi (born 1960 in Iran) has published six books in Persian and has now published his first novel in German translation. He worked as an actor, playwright and director in the theater and fled his homeland in the mid-1980s; he has lived in Berlin since 1994. "The Weight of Others" (originally published in 2021) takes us back to the 1980s in Iran: two years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the new regime begins to eliminate the political opposition. Torture and mass executions dominate everyday life, and the young hero of the novel, Peyman Bamshad, who was arrested due to a mix-up, tries to save himself from the cruel and incomprehensible by making fun of everything. But this can - of course - only work for a limited time.

Told at breakneck speed, we follow Peyman Bamshad's memories as the adult protagonist merges with his thirteen-year-old self - in search of himself, he leads us through the absurdity of the post-revolutionary years in Iran. - The novel shows how quickly societies brutalize when a totalitarian regime comes to power, how quickly violence becomes the norm - and what violence does to those who are exposed to it. (Translated from the Persian by Sarah Rauchfuß, Wallstein 2025)

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