Im Morgen wächst ein Birnbaum

Fikri Anıl Altıntaş grew up as the son of Turkish parents in a small Hessian town. His father works as a Turkish teacher, his mother as a cleaner. It is a childhood in the middle of social housing blocks, characterized by the urgent desire to be “German” and the bitter disappointment with the reality in Germany. The longing to be seen and to find his own way as a Turkish-Muslim man is constantly growing. It is above all his relationship with his father that ultimately confronts him with the question: What does masculinity even mean and how can it be understood and lived beyond the clichés?
In his literary debut “Im Morgen wächst ein Birnbaum”, Fikri Anıl Altıntaş searches for the nuances in the midst of entrenched narratives. He takes a radically honest look back at himself and his family history in order to better understand the present.
At the Habibi Kiosk, the author will read from his book and talk about it with Dîlan Z. Çapan.
The evening takes place in cooperation with and at the invitation of the Amnesty International Anti-Racism Group in Munich.

About the author
Fikri Anıl Altıntaş, born in 1992 in Wetzlar, is an author from Berlin. He writes for Freitag and taz, among others. In his texts, lectures and workshops, including for the Gropius Bau, ZDF and the Berliner Ensemble, he deals with masculinity and role models, anti-feminism and the (de)construction of non-white, Muslim-read masculinities in Germany. On Instagram, he writes under @_faanil about overcoming patriarchal structures and breaking with viewing habits. He is a volunteer #HeForShe Germany ambassador for UN Women Germany. His literary debut “Im Morgen wächst ein Birnbaum” was published in April 2023 - a personal and familial search for clues to the question: what does masculinity mean?

About the Amnesty International Anti-Racism Group Munich
Aware that racism in Germany is a structural problem that affects society as a whole, the group tries to create spaces that deal with it and support mutual empowerment. To this end, the group has worked with self-organizations in Munich in the past and has given racialized or repeatedly marginalized artists a stage through events it has organized. The focus is on Germany and Munich in particular.