Said (writer)

SAID at a presentation of the magazine Also in the Lyrik Kabinett , 2014

SAID ( Persian سعید[ sæˈiːd ]; * May 27, 1947 in Tehran ; † May 15, 2021 in Munich ; civil: Said Mirhadi , stage name in capital letters) was an Iranian-German writer .

Life

In 1965 SAID came to Munich as a student at the age of seventeen . Here he studied political science . After the overthrow of the Shah in 1979, he briefly went to Iran . The theocracy newly established there by the mullahs, however, prompted him to return to German exile . He received German citizenship and wrote poetry and prose in German , which he mastered in all their nuances and understood them as his "dwelling".

SAID's main themes were love and exile. He has received several awards for his literary work, but also for his commitment to the politically persecuted. SAID was a member and from 1995 to 1996 Vice President and from 2000 to 2002 President of the PEN Center Germany , whose representative he was temporarily also for the Writers in Prison Committee (from 1995 to 1996). In addition to his own work, he was committed to Persian literature and mediated between authors and publishers for decades.

In May 2021, SAID died of a heart attack at the age of 73.

honors and awards

• 1986 Literature Prize of the City of Munich
• 1992 Civis Radio Prize
• 1994 Premio Letterario Internazionale "Jean Monnet"
• 1996 Prize of the City of Heidelberg Literature in Exile
• 1997 Villa Aurora scholarship , Los Angeles
• 1997 Hermann Kesten Medal from the PEN Center Germany
• 1998 literary scholarship from the provincial capital Graz
• 2002 Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
• 2006 Goethe Medal
• 2010 Literature Prize of the Free German Association of Authors (FDA)
• 2014 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Cross of Merit on Ribbon)
• 2016 Friedrich Rückert Prize
• 2017 Alfred Müller Felsenburg Prize for upright literature

Works

Poetry and prose

• Love poems. P. Kirchheim Verlag, Munich, 1989.
• Then I scream until there is silence. Poems, Heliopolis-Verlag, Tübingen, 1990.
• Self-portrait for a distant mother. A Poem, P. Kirchheim Verlag, Munich, 1992.
• where I die is my stranger. Poems, P. Kirchheim Verlag, Munich, 1994.
• Me and the Shah. Ayatollah's Confession . Radio plays, perpol-verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89226-003-6 .
• The long arm of the mullahs. Notes from my exile. C. H. Beck, Munich, 1995, ISBN 3-406-39070-6 .
• Be night to me Love poems. Publishing house C. H. Beck, Munich, 1998.
• This animal that doesn't exist. A bestiary, Verlag C. H. Beck, Munich, 1999.
• Landscapes of a distant mother. Publishing house C. H. Beck, Munich, 2001.
• Outer skin interior dreams. New poems, Verlag C. H. Beck, Munich, 2002.
• Living in Germany. A conversation with Wieland Freund , C. H. Beck, Munich, 2004, ISBN 978-3-406-51711-2 .
• on the body. 66 erotic miniatures. with photos by James Dummler, Lounge at C. J. Bucher Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7658-6003-4 .
• Me and Islam. Prosa, C. H. Beck, Munich, 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-53553-6 .
• The red smiles, the blue is silent. Stories about pictures . C. H. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-55070-6 .
• Psalms. Publishing house C. H. Beck, Munich, 2007.
• The angel and the dove. Publishing house C. H. Beck, Munich, 2008.
• The house that we inhabit. Lyrik Kabinett, Munich, 2009.
• Call back the birds. Publishing house C. H. Beck, Munich, 2010.
• The no man's land is ours. Diederichs, Munich, 2010.
• Parlando with le phung , Steidl, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86930-607-0 .
• looking for the light. Peter Hellmund Verlag, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-939103-70-7 .
• from the word to the house. Poems. Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2018, ISBN 978-3-89086-327-6 .
• september in varna . Bankruptcy book Verlag Claudia Gehrke, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-88769-679-5 .
• whisper against the wolves . Bankruptcy book Verlag Claudia Gehrke, Tübingen 2021, ISBN 978-3-88769-448-7 .

Children's books

• Once upon a time there was a flower. a fairy tale with pictures by Květa Pacovská , Michael Neugebauer Verlag, Salzburg, 1998.
• Clara. a fairy tale with pictures by Moidi Kretschmann , NP Buchverlag, 2001.
• Mukulele. with illustrations by Katharina Grossmann-Hensel , Verlag Sauerländer, Düsseldorf, 2007.
• A letter to Simba. a children's book with illustrations by Gabriele Hafermaas, Munich, Sankt Michaelsbund, 2011.
• Snow bears never lie . A picture book with illustrations by Marine Ludin, Zurich, NordSüd Verlag 2013.

radio play

• Where I die is my stranger . SFB 1981, with Paul Burian .
• Me and the Shah . SFB 1982, with Udo Samel and Armin Mueller-Stahl .
• Ayatollah's Confession . BR 1984, with Wolfgang Büttner .
• Landscapes of a mother . NDR and SWF 1996.
• Sir Alfred extraterritorial . SWF 1997.
• Friedrich Hölderlin no longer receives anyone . SWR 2001, music: Peter Zwetkoff , director: Hans Gerd Krogmann .

literature

• Portrait of and texts about SAID. In: Swiss monthly books . Swiss Month Archive: Issue 944, December 2005 (Paid Article).
• Caraway Turk or Terrorist . In: Spiegel Spezial , No. 2/2008; on prominent Muslims in Germany (PDF 446 KB).

Web links

Commons : SAID  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Said in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Said in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• SAID's homepage
• Interview. ( Memento from May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Reading marks (BR / Video / 29 min)
• Interview with the poet SAID: "I defended my religiosity before the Islamic Republic"
• Said (writer) in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )

supporting documents

1. ↑ He wanted to be a border crosser . On: faz.net from May 17, 2021.
2. ↑ Nina Fargahi: The poet without a window. In: NZZ . November 27, 2015, accessed December 3, 2015 . 
3. ^ German-Iranian poet SAID has died. In: Iranjournal.org. May 17, 2021, accessed May 17, 2021 .  .