Einsteigen. Erzählen. Entschwinden. Berichte eines Hamburger Taxifahrers

In the organizer's words:

62 journeys. 62 encounters, mostly at night. People passing through: Business people, intellectuals, fraudsters, thugs, paranoiacs, sick people, prostitutes, artists, chatterboxes - and silencers. What remains is their story. The cab becomes a traveling place of remembrance, sometimes even a rolling confessional. İlhami Akter records these stories in his book Fahrtenbuch - Berichte eines Hamburger Taxifahrers.

As a chronicler of big city nights, as a witness to the inconspicuous, he tells of the small, big moments in which life reveals itself: raw, real, human. Reports about ourselves.

Ilhami Akter, born in 1972, comes from a Kurdish family from the village of Zelxidêr near Karakoçan. He has lived in Germany since fleeing in 1989. He has been a cab driver in Hamburg for 23 years.

Jessica Dietrich will be reading. After the reading, Ilhami Akter is looking forward to talking to the guests.

Free admission, donations requested.