Writers-In-Exile programme scholars
Photograph of scholars who participated in the German Centre Writers-In-Exile Programme between 2016 and 2019. From left to right are: Enoh Meyomesse (Cameroon); Fatuma Yimam (Ethiopia); Sajjad Jahan Fard...
Yamen Hussein
Photograph of Yamen Hussein taken by Camilla Ackermann. Hussein, a Syrian poet and journalist, lived in Munich as a scholar on the German Centre's Writers-In-Exile Programme from December 2014...
Svetlana Alexievich
Photograph of the Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich, vice-president of PEN International (2019-) and president of the Belarusian Centre, who participated in the German Centre's Writers in Exile Programme from...
Writers in Exile Anthology event
Photograph of German Centre members, associates, and Writers-In-Exile Programme scholars on stage at an event that took place in Cologne in 2017. Among them are: Enoh Meyomesse, third on...
Hamid Skif
Photograph of Hamid Skif taken by Christoph Piecha. Skif was born Mohamed Benmebkhout in the Algerian port city of Oran. After living in Langenbroich as guest of the Heinrich...
Monika Grütters with Josef Haslinger
Photograph of Monika Grütters, German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, on the left, and Josef Haslinger, president of the German Centre (2013-17) on the right. This...
Yamen Hussein and SAID in Munich
Photograph of German Centre members and associates at a event that took place in Munich on 9 March 2017. From left to right are: Roman Bunka, German musician; Yamen...