Navid Kermani

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Navid Kermani (2015)

Navid Kermani ( Persian نوید کرمانی, Born November 27, 1967 in Siegen ) is a German writer , publicist and qualified orientalist . He has been awarded numerous prestigious cultural and literary prizes. In 2015 he received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .

Life

Kermani was born as the fourth son of Iranian parents who immigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959 . He has German and Iranian citizenship. Kermani grew up in the Protestant city ​​of Siegen, where he attended the Fürst-Johann-Moritz-Gymnasium and the Gymnasium am Rosterberg (today's Peter-Paul-Rubens-Gymnasium ). He is married to the Islamic scholar Katajun Amirpur ; they are parents of two daughters and live in Cologne. His father is a doctor and worked in the Catholic St. Marien Hospital in Siegen , Kermani's three older brothers are also practicing doctors.

Navid Kermani in Pristina (2013)

As a schoolboy at the age of fifteen, Kermani worked as a freelancer for the local editorial team of the Westfälische Rundschau . During his studies he wrote for national German newspapers and from 1996 to 2000 he was a permanent author in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Kermani studied oriental studies , philosophy and theater studies in Cologne , Cairo and Bonn . With the support of the German National Academic Foundation , he wrote a dissertation entitled “God is beautiful”. He was skilled in Oriental Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn 1998 PhD ; In 2006 he qualified as a professor in the subject of Oriental Studies with the book “The Terror of God - Attar, Job and the Metaphysical Revolt”. From 2000 to 2003 he was a Long Term Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . Today he lives as a freelance writer in Cologne's Eigelsteinviertel .

In the subjects of his literary work, Kermani revolves around human borderline experiences in the face of death, in everyday life, the experience of music or sexuality. His scientific focus is on the aesthetics of the Koran and Islamic mysticism. Kermani is also known as a reporter from the crisis areas of the world. In September 2014 he reported from Iraq for the news magazine Der Spiegel ; In October 2015 he traveled to meet the refugees on their route in the opposite direction from Budapest to Turkey . The reports were later published in an expanded version as a book and also became part of the intercultural music project "MASS FOR PEACE in times of flight", which was premiered in 2018 by the Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra together with the Syrian soprano Rasha Rizk .

Kermani has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry since October 2007, and from 2009 to 2012 he was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen (KWI) . In 2009 Navid Kermani was also appointed a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg . From 2006 to 2009 he was a member of the German Islam Conference . He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Avicenna Studienwerk since 2013 .

In the summer semester of 2010, Kermani was a guest lecturer for poetics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In the 2011/12 winter semester he gave the Göttingen Poetics Lectures, and in 2014 the Mainz Poetics Lectures. In the summer semester 2013 he was visiting professor for the history of ideas of Islam at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. In spring 2014 he taught German literature as Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College in the United States.

In 2015 he was a member of the jury for the award The Extraordinary Book of the children and youth program of the Berlin International Literature Festival .

When the German Federal President was elected in 2010 , Kermani was a member of the 14th Federal Assembly at the suggestion of the Hessian Greens . On May 23, 2014, Navid Kermani gave the much-noticed celebratory speech on the occasion of the ceremony of the German Bundestag for the 65th anniversary of the Basic Law . He was brought up for discussion as a possible candidate for the election of the German Federal President in 2017 .

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According to Gustav Seibt in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Kermani is able to relate in an effortless way to the positions of Herder, Goethe, Rückert and the orientalism of the German classical period and to express himself just as competently on Lessing, Kleist, Hölderlin and Kafka as on Islamic mysticism . Kermani's story about the Canadian rock musician Neil Young , The Book of those killed by Neil Young (2002), has already been reviewed in major newspapers.

In November 2005, Kermani staged the play Hosea in Cologne based on texts from the Bible and Friedrich Hebbels . His book Der Schreck Gottes - Attar, Job und die Metaphysische Revolte , published in 2005, was described by newspapers as “healing disturbing” ( NZZ ) or “literally breaking boundaries”. The Ö1 culture magazine draws parallels to earlier works by Kermani, whose religious-comparative metaphysics were also shaped by the question of theodicy .

In autumn 2005, Kermani gave the keynote address in Vienna's Burgtheater on the 50th anniversary of the reopening of the house, in which he questioned the EU's refugee and asylum policy. At the beginning of 2007 his novel Kurzmitteilung appeared . In 2011, Kermani was awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize . The jury's justification states: “Kermani's openness of the eye negates traditional limitations. He does not dodge into the universal, but thinks transcultural and transreligious, without ever succumbing to the obvious danger of covering up or ignoring what actually separates. ”(The laudation was given by Marie Luise Knott ).

Kermani's novel Dein Name was nominated for the German Book Prize 2011. The orientalist also received the Kleist Prize in 2012 . With reference to his book Your Name , Kermani received the Joseph Breitbach Prize in 2014 .

Kermani advocates the ideological neutrality of the state. The orientalist, however, criticizes a “religious illiteracy” associated with the “complete suppression of the religious”, which leads to a “fundamental impoverishment of society”. Therefore, Kermani names religious tolerance and religious freedom as an important European value and demands, in the sense of enlightenment, consideration for the beliefs and beliefs of others.

The Akademie der Künste der Welt , which opened on October 27, 2012 in Cologne, goes back to Kermani's idea from 2007 - together with the artistic director of the House of World Cultures in Berlin, Bernd M. Scherer .

Positions and news

Iraq war

Kermani rejected the Iraq war . Regardless of this, he regards the rule under Saddam Hussein as a terrible terror regime, the end of which he welcomes. In the features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and his book Strategy of Escalation , Kermani said in 2005 that not only the US but also Europe had failed in the Iraq war - and that the Old World was about to repeat the same mistakes in the conflict with Iran . The Islamic scholar claims that the "American project of a reorganization of the Middle East" is much closer to most Iranians today "than the so altruistic politics of the Europeans". Kermani calls self-deception that Europe is pretending that there are still reform efforts in Iran. As evidence, he cites the freedom of the press gagged by Iran's rulers , the imprisoned opposition members and the manipulation of parliamentary elections to restore a “conservative” majority. “War is the wrong means. But liberation is not the wrong goal, ”says Kermani.

Cologne mosque construction

On June 4, 2007, Kermani published a report , also in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , about a public hearing on the construction of a mosque in Cologne-Ehrenfeld , in which he was enthusiastic about the open discussion atmosphere and certified that the citizens present were “pure democracy”. There is a “broad, cosmopolitan center” in Cologne, which is much more tolerant than some intellectuals.

Hessian Culture Prize

In 2009, after being withdrawn, Kermani received - together with Cardinal Karl Lehmann , the former Church President of Hessen-Nassau Peter Steinacker and the Vice-President of the Central Council of Jews Salomon Korn  - the Hessian Culture Prize , which was awarded in 2009 under the motto of interreligious tolerance.

He was offered the award on March 20, 2009 after the originally planned Fuat Sezgin refused acceptance on the grounds that his co-award winner Salomon Korn was in favor of Israel's military action. On May 13, 2009, Kermani learned that the award had been withdrawn. The decisive factor was that Lehmann and Steinacker had expressed their criticism of Kermani. They took offense at a feature article by Kermani about a crucifixion painting by Guido Reni , which was published on March 14, 2009 in the NZZ . In it Kermani had written: “For me, I formulate the rejection of the theology of the cross more drastically: blasphemy and idolatry .” In the course of this, however, he reports that this view was shaken by the aesthetic experience: “For the first time I thought: I - not just: one -, me could believe in a cross. ”On April 24, 2009, Lehmann stated in a letter to the Hessian Prime Minister Roland Koch that“ under these circumstances he cannot receive the award ”. He later justified this, among other things, with media reactions that were expected in his opinion, “if I had received the award in this situation and possibly still in the bishop's robe next to Navid Kermani.” The letter to Koch also revealed Lehmann's doubts as to whether Kermani was worthy of the award: “So At the age of 41 and in view of the publications and achievements made so far, he has an unbelievably large list of awards and prizes to present. [...] He is undoubtedly intellectually gifted and well educated, and has in the meantime also completed his habilitation. But - let me at least ask you this - it is already a life's work at the age of 41 that deserves the award of a Hessian Culture Prize here and this with the many people who are volunteering for culture in our country. ”His tone of voice became perceived by commentators as "subtle [...] defame [d]", "blasé", "infamous" and "condescending"; Kermani also found him “defamatory”. Lehmann however stated: “I never even insinuated the exclusion of Navid Kermani from the award, let alone expected or even warned. I also didn't write a defamatory letter about him. "Kermani, who had disclosed his" differences [...] with the Hessian Prime Minister Koch "to the chief of protocol of the State of Hesse from the beginning, declared that it was" unacceptable for a secular state, that a prime minister acts in this way on the instructions of a cardinal ", and commented that the matter made it clear that" Koch's attempt to wash himself off previous 'dirty election campaigns' by acting as a mediator in interreligious dialogue [...] was 'thoroughly messed up' " .

Ultimately, after a conversation with Kermani, Lehmann and Steinacker decided to jointly accept the award, which was finally awarded to the four winners on November 26, 2009. Prime Minister Koch apologized to Kermani. Kermani donated his prize money to the pastor of the Catholic parish of St. Theodor in Cologne-Vingst, Franz Meurer .

Arabic spring

In February 2011, Kermani paid tribute to the Arab Spring because the demonstrators took to the streets for “freedom, dignity, the rule of law, equal opportunities”. He criticizes the policies of Western governments. "Crime and complicity (with dictatorships)" seem, according to the author, "to have become normal in some European government palaces". He positively emphasizes the role of Al-Jazeera , the station has contributed a lot to the culture of debate. The reporting of German media, in which, according to Kermani, people “gossip about the fact that in Islam state and politics are one”, he rejected as “religiously colored colonial glasses”; the protests are not about religion. In addition, he opposes multiculturalism as a culturalism that justifies dictatorships: “On the other hand, one falls into relativism and claims that people elsewhere do not want democracy because they are different, have different traditions”. Such a view would work against the original left goal, the equality of all people and the equalization of living conditions. In general, the "overemphasis on otherness, be it the migrants or the Hartz IV recipients, [...] primarily has the function of cementing differences - especially economic differences".

"Triumph of Vulgar Rationalism"

During the intense public debate about the circumcision judgment of the Cologne Regional Court of 2012 published Kermani in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung an article entitled "Triumph of Vulgärrationalismus". In this, he accuses the regional court of "just like a coup d'état to declare four thousand years of religious history obsolete." Enlightenment is not only the rule of reason, but at the same time the understanding of its limitations. “Vulgar rationalism, on the other hand, which is expressed in the judgment of the Cologne Regional Court, sets one's own, ie today's understanding, absolutely.” Joachim Gauck adopted the term “vulgar rationalism” in his comments on the circumcision debate.

Speech at the ceremony for 65 years of the Basic Law , May 2014

On May 23, 2014, the German Bundestag held a ceremony to commemorate the proclamation of the Basic Law on May 23, 1949. Kermani was invited as the keynote speaker. In his speech he analyzed the language of the Basic Law and compared its effectiveness with that of the Luther Bible . He spoke about the historical progress made in the post-war period and stated that the Basic Law "created reality". Kermani praised the Federal Republic of Germany for having enforced the constitutional norms. At the same time, he praised the willingness to integrate and the efforts of German society. He mentioned Willy Brandt several times . Regarding him, he said: "If I wanted to name a single day, a single event, a single gesture for which the word dignity seems appropriate in German post-war history, (...) then it was the kneeling of Warsaw ". He sharply criticized the restriction of the right of asylum by the amendment to the Basic Law of 1993 (" Asylum Compromise "), which he described as a "distortion" of Article 16a and a "mutilation" of the constitution. Nevertheless, he emphasized the opportunities that the Federal Republic of Germany had offered immigrants in particular, and concluded the speech - on their behalf - with the words "Thank you, Germany". Individual members of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group criticized the speech as one-sided or tendentious, Georg Nüßlein (CSU) left the room. In contrast, the speech was positively received and discussed in the German media. She was named “Speech of the Year 2014” by the University of Tübingen.

Statement on the offensive of the “Islamic State” in the Middle East

In August 2014, in the Berliner Zeitung , Kermani called for the "Islamic State" (IS) in Iraq to be stopped by military means. He compared the conflict in terms of its importance with the First World War and warned of a genocide against Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities. In his statement, he pointed out the importance of humanitarian corridors for refugees and warned against a “ pole pot version of Islam” from “the borders of Iran to the Mediterranean coast”. In his peace prize speech in October 2015, Kermani called for “possibly militarily, yes, but above all much more resolutely than before diplomatically and civil society” to turn against the Islamic State. He did not call for war, but pointed out that the war “could no longer be ended in Syria and Iraq alone”. It could "only be ended by the powers that are behind the hostile armies and militias, Iran, Turkey, the Gulf States, Russia and also the West."

Speech at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich

In a speech on the twentieth anniversary of the Chair of Jewish History and Culture at the LMU Munich , Kermani reported on his feelings during a visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp and how living and working in the German language contributed to the responsibility for the crimes of the Second World War brings itself.

Statement on Lisa Eckhart's recruitment

At the opening of the Hamburg Harbourfront Literature Festival in September 2020, he criticized two authors who had refused to stand on stage with Lisa Eckhart , which had contributed to Eckhart's unloading. Eckhart had been invited because of her debut novel Omama , and "[...] the stage is a public space, and when an independent jury selected your novel, it had the same right to enter this public space [...]."

Awards

Publications (selection)

Monographs

Articles and essays (selection)

Audio books

  • What is important now. Acceptance speech Dönhoff Prize, acceptance speech State Prize North Rhine-Westphalia, funeral speech for Rupert Neudeck, speech on the 20th anniversary of the Chair of Jewish History and Culture (unabridged author reading). Argon, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-8398-7124-9 .

literature

  • Christoph Gellner: “Literature that looks up to the sky.” The writer Navid Kermani. In: Voices of the Time . 232 (139), 1, 2014, pp. 43-52.
  • Torsten Hoffmann (Ed.): Navid Kermani . text + kritik 217 (2018), ISBN 978-3-86916-668-1 , 95 pp.
  • Navid Kermani, Martin Schulz, Ansgar Schnurr: Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh rooms. Navid Kermani and Martin Schulz in conversation about image descriptions in the novel “Your Name”. In: Barbara Lutz-Sterzenbach, Ansgar Schnurr and Ernst Wagner (eds.): Image worlds remixed. Transculture, globality, diversity in art education fields. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, pp. 247–264.
  • Steffen Koehler: Navid Kermani. Political Romanticism as State Theology . JH Röll Verlag, Dettelbach 2019.
  • Ruth Bender: "Belongings also have something tricky" / writer Navid Kermani on Europe and being German , in: Neue Presse from February 8, 2018, p. 22

Web links

Commons : Navid Kermani  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peace Prize. Retrieved January 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Books conveying thoughts in durchblick 04/2015, p. 52, accessed on January 15, 2017 (PDF)
  3. ↑ Monday interview: “I thought: now more than ever” , the daily newspaper , March 4, 2012, accessed on August 15, 2012.
  4. ^ Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, Ravensburg: Navid Kermani. Retrieved January 28, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Milena G. Klipingat: Navid Kermani. Writer, orientalist and Cologne citizen of the world , Goethe-Institut , 2014.
  6. ↑ Navid Kermani: God is beautiful. The aesthetic experience of the Koran. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-44954-9 . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ Navid Kermani: God is beautiful. The aesthetic experience of the Koran. 1999 and Navid Kermani: Attar, Job and the Metaphysical Revolt. 2005.
  8. ↑ Navid Kermani: Iraq In the Heart of the Shia . In: Der Spiegel . tape 39 , September 22, 2014 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 2, 2016]).
  9. ↑ Navid Kermani: The future is over . In: Der Spiegel . tape 40 , September 29, 2014 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 2, 2016]).
  10. ↑ Navid Kermani: Iraq Why? In: Der Spiegel . tape 41 , October 6, 2014 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 2, 2016]).
  11. ↑ Der Spiegel: Navid Kermani on his trip to Iraq: "What happens here is comparable to the First World War In: Spiegel Online . September 24, 2014.
  12. ↑ Navid Kermani: Refugees The break-in of reality . In: Der Spiegel . tape 42 , October 10, 2015 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 2, 2016]).
  13. ↑ Magdalene Melchers: Integration through music projects - How intercultural projects change the understanding of music. In: deutschlandfunk.de. Deutschlandfunk - Atelier of New Music, April 13, 2019, accessed on June 23, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Christoph Heinzel: SYRIAN TRANSFORM A TRAUMA INTO MUSIC - "Mass for peace in times of flight" ... In: Oldenburgische Volkszeitung . No. 61 , March 13, 2018, p. 9 .
  15. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the author's website .
  16. ^ The Süddeutsche Zeitung on the Frankfurt Poetics Lectures 2010 (PDF; 26 kB).
  17. ^ University of Göttingen: uni-goettingen.de
  18. ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier: wiesbadener-kurier.de ( Memento from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) February 1, 2014.
  19. ↑ Dartmouth College: dartmouth.edu
  20. ↑ Navid Kermani: Speech by Dr. Navid Kermani at the ceremony “65 Years of the Basic Law”. In: Website of the German Bundestag. May 23, 2014, accessed May 24, 2014 .
  21. ↑ Lenz Jacobsen: Speech in the Bundestag: Thank you, Navid Kermani! In: Zeit Online. Die Zeit , May 23, 2014, accessed on May 24, 2014 .
  22. ^ Hubertus Volmer: Tears in the Bundestag: "Thank you, Germany". In: n-tv.de. May 23, 2014, accessed May 24, 2014 .
  23. ↑ Kermani as Federal President? Muslim and modern patriot. In: FAZ.
  24. ↑ Bernd Ulrich: Navid Kermani? In: time online. July 29, 2016. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  25. ↑ Gustav Seibt: Frommer Enlightenment. Navid Kermani receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 19th June 2015.
  26. ^ Collection of review notes on perlentaucher.de, accessed December 26, 2012.
  27. ↑ Hosea. ( Memento from December 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on navidkermani.de
  28. ↑ Hosea. ( Memento from February 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in the play archive of the Cologne Theater, accessed December 26, 2012.
  29. ↑ Collection of review notes at perlentaucher.de .
  30. ↑ Wolfgang Seibel: The horror of God. The common in monotheistic religions. Ö1 , December 10, 2005, accessed December 26, 2012 .
  31. ↑ Excerpts from the speech on the author's website, accessed December 26, 2012 .
  32. ↑ Marie Luise Knott: The openness of the eye. Navid Kermani receives the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought. Explanation of the jury. In: Festschrift for the award of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought 2011 to Navid Kermani ( Memento from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Pp. IV-V. (pdf), boell-bremen.de .
  33. ^ Longlist Deutscher Buchpreis 2011. ( Memento from March 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Information about the nomination on the website of the Hanser Verlag.
  34. ↑ Norbert Lammert awards the Kleist Prize 2012 to the Cologne writer Navid Kermani. ( Memento of November 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the Heinrich von Kleist Society website, accessed December 27, 2012.
  35. ^ Deutsche Welle: Joseph Breitbach Prize to Navid Kermani
  36. ↑ Book reviews ( memento of January 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) by Norbert Lammert on his website, accessed December 27, 2012.
  37. ↑ Joachim Frank: "The nation state causes mischief". Navid Kermani receives the Kleist Prize on Sunday. In the interview he talks about religion and patriotism. In: ksta.de. M. DuMont Schauberg, November 12, 2012, accessed December 27, 2012 .
  38. ↑ Navid Kermani: Attack on Europe. Anyone who votes on the fundamental right of religious freedom does not only attack minorities, but also European values. In: süddeutsche.de . Süddeutscher Verlag , May 17, 2010, accessed on December 27, 2012 .
  39. ↑ Navid Kermani: Triumph of Vulgar Rationalism. The writer Martin Mosebach recently published an article on the possible criminal liability of blasphemy. This has met with complete rejection in the published opinion . What the outrage over Martin Mosebach has to do with the prohibition of circumcision. In: Süddeutsche.de. Süddeutscher Verlag, August 2, 2012, accessed on December 27, 2012 .
  40. ↑ Chronicle. ( Memento of October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the website Akademie der Künste der Welt Cologne, accessed on December 30, 2012.
  41. ↑ a b "Tenderness of the masses". Interview with Navid Kermani. Frankfurter Rundschau , February 18, 2011, pp. 28–29. ( Online version ).
  42. ^ Escalation strategy. The Middle East and the Politics of the West . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-966-X , pp. 88-89.
  43. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : "The Cologne Embassy: Navid Kermani at the public hearing on mosque construction" . June 4, 2007 (PDF; 77 kB).
  44. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur : “Interreligious Culture Prize failed for the time being” . May 14, 2009.
  45. ↑ a b c Navid Kermani: No mail from Dieter legs. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 16, 2009.
  46. ↑ Navid Kermani: Bildansichten: Why did you leave us? In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 14, 2009.
  47. ↑ a b c Lehmann: No respect for faith. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 19, 2009.
  48. ^ A b Peter Michalzik: What Cardinal Lehmann wrote to Koch. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . May 15, 2009. The letter has not yet been published in its entirety, nor has it been officially confirmed by the author with regard to the authenticity of these passages.
  49. ↑ Andreas Mertin: Culture disclosed (PDF; 157 kB).
  50. ↑ Kermani at a conference of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Berlin opposite the 3sat magazine Kulturzeit, cf. B. ksta.de ( Memento from May 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
  51. ↑ For further comments on the topic, see the press review in the Münster Forum for Theology and Church
  52. ↑ Ralf Euler, Stefan Toepfer: Koch apologizes to Kermani. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 26, 2009. Retrieved November 27, 2009.
  53. ↑ The Christian Science Monitor : Priest bridges religious divide by funding Germany's biggest mosque (PDF; 157 kB).
  54. ↑ Navid Kermani, Triumph des Vulgar Rationalism , Süddeutsche Zeitung August 2, 2012 (online)
  55. ↑ circumcision debate: "Gauck warns Vulgärrationalismus" , Spiegel Online December 2, 2012 spiegel.de .
  56. ↑ a b c Speech by Dr. Navid Kermani at the ceremony “65 Years of the Basic Law” , text archive, German Bundestag, 2014.
  57. ^ "Quiet pride in such a Federal Republic" , German Bundestag - Mediathek, May 23, 2014.
  58. ↑ Kermani criticizes the mutilation of the Basic Law. In: Zeit Online. May 23, 2014.
  59. ↑ a b Lenz Jacobsen: Speech in the Bundestag - Thank you, Navid Kermani! . In: Zeit Online. May 23, 2014.
  60. ↑ Harry Nutt: Selection. Thank you, Navid Kermani. Praise for the writer's speech in the Bundestag. ( Memento from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frankfurter Rundschau. (Online), May 25, 2014.
  61. ↑ University of Tübingen honors Navid Kermani for "Speech of the Year 2014" , evangelisch.de, December 18, 2014.
  62. ↑ Navid Kermani: “Stop the Islamic State!” Berliner Zeitung, August 14, 2014, accessed on August 16, 2014 .
  63. ↑ Kermani's Peace Prize Speech: Jacques Mourad and Love in Syria , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 19, 2015.
  64. ↑ faz.net
  65. ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten , September 11, 2020, p. V
  66. ↑ Schwarzkopf Europe Prize ( Memento from June 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  67. ↑ Link collection on the withdrawal of the Hessian Culture Prize for Navid Kermani on the website of the city of Münster, accessed on July 23, 2014.
  68. ↑ Navid Kermani receives Breitbach Literature Prize. In: The Standard . May 20, 2014.
  69. ↑ BDDI.org - German Dialogue Prize 2014. Accessed on January 28, 2018 .
  70. ^ Zeit Stiftung Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius News: Navid Kermani receives the Marion Dönhoff Prize 2016 , accessed on September 6, 2016.
  71. ↑ Press release: 2017 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture. European Cultural Foundation , February 2, 2017, accessed February 11, 2017 .
  72. ^ Frank Pommer (pom): Navid Kermani receives Sinsheimer Prize from the city of Freinsheim. In: The Rheinpfalz online. October 17, 2016, accessed March 5, 2017 .
  73. ↑ Kermani receives honorary award from the Austrian book trade. In: ORF.at . June 8, 2021, accessed June 8, 2021 .
  74. ↑ Philipp Schnee: Questioning what is closest to you. Broadcast of the DLF about his book Vergesst Deutschland. A patriotic speech. October 1, 2012, accessed on July 23, 2014.
  75. ↑ Review by Navid Kermani: God, our bride. In: Der Spiegel . 35/2015, August 22, 2015, pp. 126–128. ( Video (reading, 2:29 min.) ).
personal data
SURNAME Kermani, Navid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES نوید کرمانی (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Iranian writer, publicist and qualified orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins