Aboud Saeed

Aboud Saeed

Aboud Saeed (* 1983 in Manbij in Syria ) is a Syrian writer; he lives in Berlin .

life and work

Before Aboud Saeed was able to travel to Germany in November 2013 at the invitation of the Munich Art Association , he worked as a blacksmith and welder in Manbidsch. With the beginning of the war in Syria, he began to publish daily status messages on his Facebook account in spring 2011, in which he mixed private and revolutionary, clever thoughts and anarchist meanness as well as everyday and absurd and with which he became an important voice in the Arab Facebook became. The Lebanese daily Annahar wrote about him at the end of December 2012: “Going on Facebook without meeting Aboud Saeed is like traveling to Paris without seeing the Eiffel Tower.” In 2015 Aboud Saeed was selected for the Berlin Senate's scholarship. He has been a columnist for VICE Germany since November 2015 .

In 2013 he published his first book and e-book Der klügste Mensch im Facebook: Status messages from Syria , in which his Facebook status messages are collected, in the translation of Sandra Hetzl in the Berlin publishing house mikrotext . The book was translated into English and Spanish and implemented as a radio play version. A stage version was staged at Ballhaus Naunynstraße in the 2014/2015 season. In 2015 he also published his second book Lebensgroßer Newsticker with mikrotext , which is also available in print in cooperation with the Leipzig publisher Spector Books. A selection of his status messages can be read again in this book. The book is subtitled Scenes from Memory and tells in 38 short stories of childhood in northern Syria, the school days under the Ba'ath regime, the life of guest workers in Lebanon, the beginning of the war, his flight to Turkey and his arrival in Germany.

Abud Saeed is the subject of the feature From Damascus to Wikipedia: On the way with the Syrian exile writer Aboud Saeed by Thomas Böhm on Deutschlandfunk ( director : Claudia Kattanek, first broadcast January 15, 2016).

Works

• The smartest person on Facebook. Status reports from Syria. Translated from Arabic by Sandra Hetzl. mikrotext, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-944543-10-9
• Life-size news ticker. Scenes from memory. Translated from Arabic by Sandra Hetzl. mikrotext & Spector Books, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944543-21-5
• A humanitarian love story , translated from Arabic by Sandra Hetzl. taz.de , column Why so serious? , February 7, 2016

Web links

Literature by and about Aboud Saeed in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Oskar Piegsa: Aboud the Great, Zeit Online from February 11, 2014 .
2. ↑ The smartest person on Facebook (1/2). Status reports from Syria, SWR2 production 2013
3. ↑ Lina Kokaly: book tip - life-size news ticker: guy with a lot of self-irony. ( Memento from November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: funkhauseuropa.de
4. ↑ Elke Heinemann : To hell with the criticism of reality. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine, May 8, 2015.
5. ↑ deutschlandfunk.de , (October 6, 2017)
6. ↑ taz.de