Collage of two photos side by side shows young people read as women. They are in this order from left to right: Annett Scheffel, Duygu Ağal. Annett Scheffel is standing in half-profile turned to the right in front of urban scenery under two crossing bridges. The camera looks from below, she is pictured up to just below the waist. She is wearing beige and white plaid dungarees, a high-waisted, tight-fitting black T-shirt top, a silver bangle on her right, a silver bracelet on her left, and a silver creole earring. She has both arms raised and is reaching with both hands to push her orange-brown hair behind her ears on the left and right. Her hairstyle is a medium length bob with micro bangs. She looks at the camera from above and smiles slightly with closed, painted lips. On the left side of the picture you can see red light reflections at the height of her arms. Duygu Ağal is sitting wide-legged, slightly bent forward, elbows resting on her legs, hands meeting in front of her open lap, fingers loosely intertwined. She is photographed from above. Duygu Ağal is wearing a dark beige pantsuit, several gold and silver necklaces with different pendants, small silver creoles and yellow eyeliner. She has medium length curly black hair, two short curls fall into her forehead. She looks at the camera with a suggested smile and closed mouth.
Annett Scheffel, Duygu Ağal
Friday, 26.8.2022
20:20 – 21:00, Haus für Poesie
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»Yeni Yeşerenler« (De)

Annett Scheffel (host), Duygu Ağal

How do you become the person you want to be, or even have to be? Duygu Ağal from Hamburg has written »Yeni Yeşerenler«, a coming-of-age story in which golden Birkenstocks and exhausting Kraut therapists have a place, as do the rejecting insignia of a world that doesn’t seem to be made for you, as well as lesbian love, a move from Hamburg to Berlin, women’s football, violence, desperation, emancipation, self-confidence, friendship and so much more. At Pop-Kultur, Duygu Ağal will read from her book, and it will sound something like this: »Derin, girl, today you will leave the house and never come back. God or Allah or whoever knows where you got those ovaries to pull this off, but I trust you. You’re smart and you’ve got an unbelievably big mouth, so somehow you’ll get through it all.«

Supported by Initiative Musik gemeinnützige Projektgesellschaft mbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) as part of Pop-Kultur Inter:national / Postmigrant Perspectives.

Collage of two photos side by side shows young people read as women. They are in this order from left to right: Annett Scheffel, Duygu Ağal. Annett Scheffel is standing in half-profile turned to the right in front of urban scenery under two crossing bridges. The camera looks from below, she is pictured up to just below the waist. She is wearing beige and white plaid dungarees, a high-waisted, tight-fitting black T-shirt top, a silver bangle on her right, a silver bracelet on her left, and a silver creole earring. She has both arms raised and is reaching with both hands to push her orange-brown hair behind her ears on the left and right. Her hairstyle is a medium length bob with micro bangs. She looks at the camera from above and smiles slightly with closed, painted lips. On the left side of the picture you can see red light reflections at the height of her arms. Duygu Ağal is sitting wide-legged, slightly bent forward, elbows resting on her legs, hands meeting in front of her open lap, fingers loosely intertwined. She is photographed from above. Duygu Ağal is wearing a dark beige pantsuit, several gold and silver necklaces with different pendants, small silver creoles and yellow eyeliner. She has medium length curly black hair, two short curls fall into her forehead. She looks at the camera with a suggested smile and closed mouth.
Annett Scheffel, Duygu Ağal