Poet­ry for Peace

September 21st is the International Day of Peace — a day that always sends an important message, especially so in times like these. In preparation for this day, Greenpeace invited us to bring this message to the stage with poetic testimonies to war and to peace.

Together with poetry slam artists from all over Germany, our poets Anastasiia Dunaieva, Robina Karimi and Jamal Abasi read works that explore what war means — both to those who have never known it as well as to those who were forced to experience it.

"My legs are bruised from the suitcase. / I feel like I have gone blind. / I can’t see any future anymore," read Anastasiia on her escape from the war in Ukraine. Robina asked the audience, “How can I explain that every day children bled to death in the streets, / but we still went outside?” Jamal reassured his homeland Afghanistan: "I will write and I will read until the day you are free again / From all the pain and all the suffering."

Many thanks to Melanie Aldrian and Sonali Beher from Greenpeace for the invitation, and to the whole Hebebühne team for the great event management!