In the organizer's words:

On the basis of classical Persian music and with texts that take up Iranian fairy tales, myths and poems, the musician and the writer convey a poetic panorama of one of the most important cultural regions in the world, which is currently the focus of daily news due to the Iranian revolution against the mullah regime. Ghasimi and Kleeberg do not address burning issues such as flight, exile, the oppression of women and migration directly and polemically, but choose an allegorical, poetic approach that gives expression to enduring humanistic values: friendship and encounters, music and love and the hope of solidarity. Music and words are not juxtaposed, but interweave improvisationally to create a very special experience.

Elshan Ghasimi (*1981 in Isfahan, Iran) is a virtuoso of the Persian long-necked lute Tar and Setar, composer, performance artist and teacher. Language, music, physicality and dramatic expression form the foundation of her work, which is also open to the visual arts.

Michael Kleeberg (*1959 in Stuttgart) is a freelance writer and translator based in Berlin. He has received numerous awards for his novels. He received the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize from the city of Bad Homburg for "Vaterjahre" and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Literature Prize for his complete works in 2016. In 2025, he was awarded the prize of the International Hermann Hesse Society.