Hafez memorial stone
The Hafis memorial stone in Leipzig commemorates the Persian poet Hafis (around 1320 - around 1389), whose volume of poems Dīwān Goethe inspired to his West-Eastern Divan . The memorial was erected around 1972, presumably at the instigation of Iranian citizens living in exile in the GDR , and restored in 1996. It is a listed building .
location
The stone is located in the Meusdorf district in front of the property at Höltystraße 37 on the corner of Hafisweg. This path has been named after the poet since 1950 after it was previously called Langenauweg.
shape
The memorial stone is a 1.60 m high square column made of gray sandstone . The front shows a full- length relief of the poet and underneath his name in Arabic script .
The left side is labeled: HAFIS | NAME OF | PERSIAN | POETS | SCHEMS ESDIN | MOHAMED - | HE LIVED IN | 14TH YEAR | IN SHIRAS - | THE COLLECTION | HIS POEMS | "DIWAN" - 1812 | INS GERMAN | TRANSFER - | REGTE GOETHE | TO HIS WEST | ÖSTL. DIWAN AN
On the right side is: AND LIKE DIE | WHOLE WORLD | Sinking - | HAFIS WITH DIR | WITH YOU ALONE | I WANT TO BET = | ZOBER - | LUST AND PEIN | BE US - THE | TWINS - | COMMON + | NOW SOUNDS - SONG | WITH OWN | FIRE - BECAUSE | YOU ARE OLDER - | YOU ARE NEW | + GOETHE | WEST-EASTL. DIWAN
Varia
There has been a Goethe Hafis memorial on Beethovenplatz in Weimar since 2000 . The Goethe & Hafis Verlag has been in Bonn since 2001 .
literature
- Markus Cottin, Gina Klank, Karl-Heinz Kretzschmar, Dieter Kürschner, Ilona Petzold: Leipzig monuments . Sax-Verlag Beucha 1998, ISBN 3-930076-71-3 , Volume 1, p. 28.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See list of cultural monuments in Meusdorf
- ^ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexikon Leipziger Straßeennamen , Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 94.
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 42.9 " N , 12 ° 25 ′ 56" E