Farideh Akashe-Böhme

Farideh Akashe-Böhme

Farideh Akashe-Böhme (born January 31, 1951 in Chaharmahal , Iran ; † November 3, 2008 in Darmstadt , Germany ) was an Iranian-German author.

Life

She spent her youth in Abadan and Isfahan . Her father arranged a marriage for her. After graduating from high school, she followed her husband, who was studying in Darmstadt. She got a divorce under German law and studied German, politics, history and sociology. Her master's thesis dealt with the depiction of the Iranian revolution in the press; Her dissertation examined the experiences of foreignness among women, especially among migrant women. In 2000 she published the story of her childhood and youth under the title The Castle of Chah Barrdi .

Farideh Akashe-Böhme was married to the philosopher Gernot Böhme and had a daughter. She worked as a freelance writer with a focus on gender , migration and Islam .

Publications

Books

• The depiction of the Iranian revolution in the German press . Edition Herodot, Göttingen 1986.
• Co-author: Reflections in front of the mirror . Ed .: Farideh Akashe-Böhme. edition suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-11724-6 .
• Womanhood - being a stranger . 2nd Edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-11732-1 .
• Co-author: On the conspicuousness of the body . Ed .: Farideh Akashe-Böhme. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-11734-3 .
• The Islamic woman is different: prejudices and realities . 2nd Edition. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 1997, ISBN 3-579-00716-5 .
• In divided worlds: experiences of foreignness between migration and participation . Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-86099-202-3 .
• The Castle of Chah Barrdi: From Persia to Germany: the story of a childhood and youth . Brandes & Apsel, 2000, ISBN 3-86099-193-0 .
  • Il Castello di Chah Bardi. Ritratto di una donna che trova se stessa sulla strada dalla Persia alla Germania . 2008, ISBN 978-88-7371-336-4 .

• Together with Gernot Böhme : Living with illness. The art of dealing with pain and suffering . Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52790-6 .
• Sexuality and Body Practice in Islam . Brandes and Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-86099-851-X .
• Together with Gernot Böhme: Doranos Wende. Philosophical novel . Karl Alber, Freiburg a. Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-495-49069-3 .

Articles (selection)

• The Western understanding of the body as a global perspective . In: Concilium . International journal of theology . 38th year, 2nd issue. Schwabenverlag AG, Ostfildern April 2002.
• Life plans and entanglement. Biographies in exile and in migration . In: Elisabeth Rohr, Mechtild Jansen (Hrsg.): Grenzgängerinnen: Women on the run, in exile and in migration . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2002, ISBN 3-89806-105-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Farideh Akashe-Böhme in the catalog of the German National Library
• Farideh Akashe-Böhme. Official website. Rebecca Böhme, accessed November 13, 2015 . 
• To be a woman - to be a stranger. In the run-up to the World Women's Conference in Beijing, Farideh Akashe-Böhme is a guest on the question team with Emilie Lieberherr, Herbert Meier and Elisabeth Bronfen. Video about an hour. Sternstunde Philosophie , August 27, 1995, accessed on November 13, 2015 . 
• Farideh Akashe-Böhme: Exotism, enthusiasm for nature and the ideology of the strange woman . In: Andreas Foitzik, Rudolf Leiprecht , Athanasios Marvakis, Uwe Seid (eds.): A master people of subjects. Racism - Nationalism - Sexism . Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research, Duisburg 1992, ISBN 3-927388-30-0 ( diss-duisburg.de [accessed on November 13, 2015]).