In the organizer's words:

Nasrin Siege takes us on a journey from her childhood in Iran through her youth in Germany in the 1960s to her adult life in Africa. She tells of exclusion and friendship, of encounters with traditional healers, street children and the Maasai, as well as with Jane Goodall and Henning Mankell. With her "wanderings" to other countries, her publications and her aid and education projects for children and women, she builds bridges between cultures - and finds a home that lives in people and stories.

Nasrin Siege, born in 1950 in Tehran/Iran, studied psychology and education in Kiel. After graduating, she worked in a psychotherapy clinic in Stuttgart and in an addiction clinic near Frankfurt. From 1983 to 2016, she lived in Tanzania, Zambia, Madagascar and Ethiopia. She wrote stories and poems in Tanzania and her first children's book in Zambia, which was followed by other books for children and young people. In 1996, she founded the association "Hilfe für Afrika e.V.", which still supports aid projects in Africa today. She received the Children's Book Prize of the City of Berlin (1993) and the Two Wings Award (2006) for her social commitment and her services to collecting African fairy tales. In 2022, Nasrin Siege was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for her voluntary work in Africa.

"The account of a life on an equal footing with people of different looks, origins, beliefs, customs and traditions, which not only accepts the equality of all, but also that of their wishes, desires, love, worries and suffering."

Ruth Weiss (✝), writer, business journalist and Honorary President of the PEN Center of German-speaking Authors Abroad.

"An autobiography that is both a description of the present and a call for commitment to the future."

Barbara Bingel, Chairwoman of the Horst Bingel-Stiftung für Literatur e.V.

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Free admission, donation welcome.