Goethe Hafis Monument
The Goethe-Hafis monument or Hafis-Goethe monument in Weimar commemorates the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the Persian poet Hafis from the 14th century. It was inaugurated in 2000 on the occasion of the International Year of the Dialogue of Culture in Weimar on Beethovenplatz not far from the main state archive on the edge of the Ilmpark . The then Iranian President Mohammed Chatami and the then Federal President Johannes Rau were present . It was created as a gift from UNESCO to the Weimar Classic Foundation and was designed by the artists Ernst Thevis and Fabian Rabsch. This project has also been supported by private donations since 1997.
The monument consists of two granite chair sculptures facing each other, which are carved from one block, which symbolize the encounter and togetherness of Occident and Orient and at the same time the affinity of the two poets. In between, on a flat base with oriental ornaments, is a bronze plate with a Ghazel of Hafez in Persian decorative script. In addition, two inscriptions from the West-Eastern Divan , Goethe's last large collection of poetry from 1819 to 1827, were attached:
- WHO KNOWS YOURSELF AND OTHERS
- WILL ADOPT HERE TOO
- ORIENT AND OCCIDENT
- CANNOT BE SEPARATED ANYMORE
This is located on the base on the eastern side. On the western side of the base it says:
- THE ORIENT IS GORGEOUS
- FORCED OVER THE SEA
- ONLY WHO LOVE AND KNOW HAFIS
- KNOW WHAT CALDERON SUNG
Next to it is a blackboard with explanatory texts.
The Iranian President Mohammad Khatami campaigned during his visit to Weimar on 12 July 2000 for a dialogue between East and West, and "above all, the search for compassionate and trusting Contact".
Other honors for Hafis in Weimar
Since 2009, the city of Weimar has organized a Hafis Memorial Day on October 12th every year. In the spring of 2010, Hafez Memorial Day at the request of was Klaus Gallas by the UNESCO in the "UNESCO list of activities in 2010 in the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures" ( "UNESCO List of Activities on 2010 International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures" ) recorded. On the occasion of the Hafez Memorial Day, temporary art installations were set up on the Goethe Hafis Memorial several times. In 2013, on the occasion of the 5th Hafis Remembrance Day, Pirusan Mahboob arranged colorful sandbags on the subject of “War and Peace” around the monument. In the following year 2014 there was again a temporary installation on the occasion of the 6th Hafis Memorial Day, which was created by Pirusan Mahboob and Stefan Kratsch and was titled “In a boat”. It was seen between Goethe's birthday (August 28th) and Hafis Memorial Day (October 12th).
Other honors for Hafis outside Weimar and its country of origin
In the Leipzig district of Meusdorf there is a Hafisweg that crosses at Höltystraße 37, where the Hafis memorial stone is located.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.raum204.de/fabian-rabsch/oeffentl/goethe.htm
- ↑ http://www.literaturland-thueringen.de/orte/hafis-goethe-denkmal-in-weimar/
- ^ Goethe Society Weimar and Divan Friends: Hope for a new development at the Hafis memorial. In: Borsuye. Journal for Medicine a. Culture 10, 1998, 39, pp. 1 and 3.
- ↑ https://www.weimar-lese.de/index.php?article_id=396
- ↑ See here .
- ↑ The relationship between Goethe and Hafis also inspired the founding of the Goethe & Hafis Verlag in Bonn in 2001.
- ↑ For more details see here.
- ↑ http://www.druckversion.studien-von-zeitfragen.net/Chatami-Diwan.htm
- ↑ http://www.bundespraesident.de/dokumente/-,2.23903/Rede/dokument.htm ( Memento from October 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Weimar's Hafez Memorial Day is supported by UNESCO. Press release of the City of Weimar from April 28, 2010, accessed on March 19, 2018.
- ↑ 5th Hafez Memorial Day Weimar (video on YouTube)
- ↑ Weimarer tries to establish German-Iranian relations. Thüringer Allgemeine from February 8, 2016 (only available for a fee).
- ↑ 6th Hafez Memorial Day Weimar (video on YouTube)
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 36.5 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 51.4 ″ E