Tomorrow is Here Speeches

by Kermani, Navid; Crawford, Tony

• ISBN13: 9781509550562
• ISBN10: 1509550569
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-12-05
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

Navid Kermani is not only one of Germany’s most distinguished writers and public intellectuals, he is also an outstanding public speaker who mesmerizes audiences with his well-crafted sentences and turns of phrase. Whether he is speaking about the plight of refugees or delivering a eulogy at his father’s graveside, Kermani finds words that surprise his listeners, enlighten them, provoke them, disturb them or move them to tears.

As a German of Iranian descent whose parents settled in Germany, Kermani is particularly sensitive to the issues raised by migration and the perceived tensions between Islam and the West. His speeches are a powerful demonstration of how much we stand to gain by adhering to the values of openness, tolerance and mutual respect for the beliefs and practices of those from other cultures who live among us.

Author Biography

Navid Kermani is a writer and scholar who lives in Cologne, Germany. He has received numerous accolades for his literary and academic work, including the 2015 Peace Prize of the German Publishers’ Association, Germany’s most prestigious cultural award.

Table of Contents

Editorial Note

Preface   



On the Presentation of the Special Award of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize to the Iranian Writers’ Association

On the Death of the Unborn Sofía

On the 65th Anniversary of the Promulgation of the German Constitution
   
On Receiving the Joseph Breitbach Prize

At the Public Commemoration of the Victims of the Paris Attacks
    
On Receiving the Peace Prize of the German Publishers’ Association   

Eulogy for Rupert Neudeck
   
Eulogy for Jaki Liebezeit 

On the Twentieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Department of Jewish History and Culture   

On Receiving the State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia

Eulogy for Djavad Kermani 

Eulogy for Karl Schlamminger    

On the Seventieth Birthday of FC Cologne
   
In Memory of Egon Ammann  

Dinner Speech at the Investment Conference of Flossbach von Storch AG   

Keynote Address to the Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology
 
Statement before the Opening Reading of the Harbour Front Literature Festival 

On Receiving the Hölderlin Prize of the City of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe 

On a Concert by the WDR Symphony Orchestra in the Broadcast Series ‘Music in Dialogue’
  
Epilogue: On My Bookseller, Ömer Özerturgut     



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