Huda al-Hilali

Huda al-Hilali ( Arabic هدى الهلالي, DMG Hudā al-Hilālī ; * 1947 in Baghdad , Iraq - October 29, 2008 Hamburg) was a German-Iraqi author and storyteller.

Life

She lived in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1959 and 1964. After training as a primary school teacher, she worked from 1972 to 1976 as the editor of a children's program for Iraqi television. When she returned to Germany in 1976, she studied film history and dramaturgy in Kassel, then Islamic studies and German studies in Hamburg. In 1984 she started with storytelling evenings in the style of the tradition of fairy tales , which she also made known nationwide.

In her book From Baghdad to Basra. Al-Hilali tells stories from Iraq about everyday life in Iraq , using both oriental and western narrative techniques that reveal absurd or Kafkaesque elements. The gift of observation, the love of telling stories and the language of the hands and looks as a form of communication are able to grasp people as a whole.

Huda al-Hilali lived in Hamburg.

Fonts

• From Baghdad to Basra - stories from Iraq . Palmyra, Heidelberg 1992. ISBN 978-3-9802298-3-8

Web links

• Short biography of Huda al-Hilali at the Jewish Theater Austria (PDF file; 1.27 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.arabischekultur.de/Veranstaltungen_2006/Saladin_Familiennacht.htm#Huda  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ http://www.foolsgarden-theater.de/index.php?s=details&id=149
3. ↑ cf. Press comments on the publisher's website ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.