Abbas Maroufi

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Abbas Maroufi (born May 17, 1957 in Tehran ) ( Persian : عباس معروفی) is an Iranian writer of plays, novels and short stories and editor of the opposition magazine Gardūn (Vault of Heaven).

Life

After elementary school, Maroufi had to work during the day to help support his family. In the evening he caught up with his schooling. He tried his hand at writing while in the military.

With the end of his military service, like many other intellectuals, he was confronted with the effects of the Islamic Revolution against the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi . Abbas Maroufi enrolled at the University of Tehran in the subject of dramatic literature, but had to interrupt his studies between 1980 and 1982 due to the situation-related closure of the university. In the following years he worked as a grammar teacher for adults and then in the music department of the town hall in his hometown. Since the Islamic Revolution popular music banned, he was done this work soon impossible, so he gave up in 1990 and now the newspaper as editor Gardun founded by reporting on the criminal abuses and political oppression in Iran. In August 1991, veiled women allegedly employed by the Kayhan Newspaper and the Islamic Public Relations Organization ravaged Gardūn's offices . From the plaintiff, Maroufi became an accused traitor. A little later, the Press Affairs Court sentenced him to 20 lashes, six months in prison and a two-year publication ban for allegedly insulting fundamental Islamic values. Thanks to international protests and the intervention of Mohammad Chātami , who set up an arbitration commission, the sentence, which was originally said to have even been the death penalty, was not fully carried out, but the newspaper remained banned.

In 1996 he managed to leave Iran unexpectedly easily. During this emigration he was supported above all by Günter Grass and the German PEN Association. He is a member of the PEN Center Germany . Maroufi initially lived with his family in Düren , where he was a guest in the Heinrich Böll House for a while. He later moved to Berlin with his wife Akram Abooee, a painter, and their three daughters, where he has lived ever since. He stopped writing while working as a night porter for some time . In addition to a small printing company, he now runs the Hedayat bookstore for Persian and oriental literature. He brought out Gardūn for some time in exile, but had to shut down the newspaper for financial reasons. Only since 2003 have his works published in Iran been allowed to be published abroad. In addition to his short stories and novels, he has also published three plays in Iran.

Maroufi expressed about the state of Iranian exiles in an interview with the daily newspaper for the premiere of one of his plays in Berlin in 2009 following quip : "We are not revolutionized, we have exploded. An arm landed in Europe, a leg in India, a toe in England and the head flew all the way to America. What remained in the country of origin of those who took to the streets against a mendacious, dictatorial regime is the stomach that has been throwing up ever since ”.

Works

Stories and novels
  • Ruberu-ye aftab . (In the face of the sun) 1982
  • Akharin nasl-e bartar . 1986
  • Samfūnī-ye mordegān . Tehran 1989
    • Symphony of the Dead . From the Persian by Anneliese Ghahraman-Beck, Insel-Verlag, Leipzig / Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-458-16795-1
  • Atr-e Yas (scent of jasmine), 1992 (published by US publisher in exile)
  • The prayer beads . Edited by Faramarz Behzad and Roxane Haag-Higuchi. With an introduction by Roxane Haag-Higuchi. Translated by Farzin Atefi, University Library, Bamberg 1997. ISBN 3-923507-25-9 (parallel edition German-Persian in Arabic script)
  • Peykar-e Farhād (actually: The Portrait of Farhad )
    • The dark side . From the Persian by Anneliese Ghahraman-Beck, Insel-Verlag, Leipzig / Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-458-16903-2
  • Abbas Maroufi: Sleepwalking in Tehran. Why Iran needs culture , translated by K. Amirpur, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 6, 1996.
  • In the year of the uproar. Story of a love. From the Persian by Anneliese Ghahraman-Beck, Insel-Verlag, Leipzig / Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-458-17238-6
  • Feridun se pesar dāsht (Feridun had three sons). Gardūn, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-938406-07-6
  • Dāstān-e Berlīn: majmūʿe-ye dāstān . Gardūn, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-938406-13-7
  • Fereydun had three sons . Edition Büchergilde, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-86406-0717 . From the Persian by Susanne Baghestani.
Plays
  • And the Lord created the cow . Written in 1995 in an Iranian prison, premiered in Berlin in 2009.

Awards

literature

  • Interview with Abbas Maroufi, in: Die Zeit , February 7, 1997 "If I had the power"
  • Why didn't you fight? The Iranian Liberals crouch in front of the Guardian Council. Open letter from Abbas Maroufi to the reform movement . Translated by Susanne Baghestani, in: Die Zeit, January 29, 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abbas Maroufi: Jump into the snake pit . In: Der Spiegel , 31/1997. July 28, 1997, accessed November 25, 2011.
  2. ↑ Never Tired dissidents: Abbas Maroufi , German wave of June 13, 2013, accessed March 10, 2016
  3. ^ Maryam Schumacher: Exiled from Iran: the thirst for liberty. In: cafebabel.com. May 22, 2006, archived from the original on May 30, 2015 ; accessed on August 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Angelika Schader: In the antechambers of death . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 16, 2005 ( online ( memento of November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on August 2, 2019]).
  5. ↑ A serenade for the revolution . In: Die Tageszeitung , December 8, 2009. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Maroufi, Abbas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ʿAbbās Maʿrūfīf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran