GOLINEH ATAI: "IRAN - DIE FREIHEIT IST WEIBLICH" GELESEN VON CLAUDIA AMM

In the organizer's words:

musically accompanied by the cellist Donja Djember

The female view of Iran
Theater and television actress Claudia Amm reads from the book "Iran - Freedom is Female" by Golineh Atai. In this book, the author, who was born in Tehran in 1974, shows how the mullah regime has held the country in its grip for more than 40 years and stifled any democratic movement. She portrays the country in a very special way: from the perspective of nine women. Atai tells the story of how the daughter of a cleric, who had to fight for her right to an education, became an internationally renowned activist. Or how a young, pro-government employee took off her headscarf in the middle of Tehran - a revolutionary act that inspired countless Iranian women.

Golineh Atai, born in Tehran in 1974, worked for ARD as a correspondent in Cairo from 2006 to 2008 and in Moscow from 2013 to 2018, after which she worked for WDR in Cologne. She has been head of the ZDF studio in Cairo since 2022. She has received numerous awards, including the "Journalist of the Year 2014", the Peter Scholl Latour Prize and the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize. In 2023 she was nominated for the 59th Grimme Prize.

Claudia Amm is a German actress. She completed her acting training from 1971-1974 at the Staatliche Hochschule Hannover / Strasberg Institute in New York and Los Angeles. Her acting career began as a theater actress at Schauspiel Bonn. This was followed by further theater engagements in Bochum, Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Bochum again.

Donja Djember, born 1967, cellist and music teacher at the Municipal Music School Ratingen NRW. Since 1996, cello solo program with her own pieces and improvisations, including in the context of readings and exhibitions, always inspired by the texts and images read. Since 2007 collaboration with his father Mohammad Eghbal and his band AHURA (Sufiworldmusic). Since 2010 trio "lnsaDonjaKai" (own pieces) and also the project "Kasienki & Tuwim".