In the series “Kontinentaldrift 3.0 – Amerika zwischen Europa und Asien” (Continental Drift 3.0 – America between Europe and Asia), which is being organized in co-operation with the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung Marjane Satrapi will be a guest at Hau on 8 September. Her lecture on “Iran and the Culture of the West” will be followed by a discussion. She rose to world-wide fame with “Persepolis”. In this comic-autobiography she draws and describes, in plain black and white images, her childhood in Persia and her teenage years in Vienna and Tehran. She closely connects her autobiography with the Iranian history, depicting the extent to which the policy of the revolutionary forces and of the government influenced the everyday-life of the Iranian teenagers.
Satrapi was raised in a rather left-liberal middle class family in Tehran. In 1984 her parents sent her to Vienna for her to avoid the effects of the Islamic Revolution and the First Gulf War. Four years later she returned to Tehran and studied visual communication at the Faculty of Arts. In 1994 she emigrated to France, where she lives today.
This evening will be hosted by the American journalist Anjana Shrivastava (Welt online) and by the German journalist Claus Christian Malzahn (Spiegel online).
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