{"id":25596,"date":"2026-04-10T17:19:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/de\/?post_type=eventkrake_artist&#038;p=25596"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:56:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:56:01","slug":"kurt-scharf","status":"publish","type":"eventkrake_artist","link":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/en\/artist\/kurt-scharf\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Scharf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kurt Scharf, born in 1940 in Landsberg\/Warthe, studied law in Berlin and was admitted to the bar in 1969. In the same year, he began working at the Goethe-Institut. He initially worked there in Germany, then served as deputy director in Tehran from 1973 to 1979, as director in Porto Alegre from 1979 to 1985, and later as director of the institutes in Istanbul (until 1999) and Lisbon (until 2005). He also directed the Literature, Society, and Science department at the House of World Cultures in Berlin from 1989 to 1994. He has lived in Berlin since 2005. Scharf is best known as an editor and translator of poetry and prose from Latin America and Asia, particularly from Persian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Latin American Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Work<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Jene Tage<\/strong> (Poems from Forugh Farrochsad; Suhrkam: Frankfurt am Main 1993)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Der Wind wird uns entf\u00fchren<\/strong> (Modern Persian Poetry; Verlag C. H. Beck: M\u00fcnchen 2005)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cheheltan: Teheran-Triologie<\/strong> (Novel; Verlag C. H. Beck: 2011, 2012 und 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Halt aus in der Nacht bis zum Wein<\/strong> (A selection of the most beautiful Persian poems of the 20th century; Sujet-Verlag: Bremen 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ein Dieb im Dunkeln starrt auf ein Gem\u00e4lde<\/strong> (21st-century Persian poetry, in collaboration with Ali Abdollahi; Sujet-Verlag: Bremen 2021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Leopold<\/strong> (from Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil, Brazilian novel; Sujet-Verlag: Bremen 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Scharf, born in 1940 in Landsberg\/Warthe, studied law in Berlin and was admitted to the bar in 1969. In the same year, he began working at the Goethe-Institut. 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