Damon Taleghani

Damon Taleghani, born in Gießen in 1995, writes poetry, prose, essays and music. Appearances as a performer from Zagreb to London, Fusion to Fuchsbau Festival, Kampnagel Hamburg, HAU Berlin and FFT Düsseldorf. For the book project “Macetti” about the exile of the Leninist Tudeh Party of Iran in the GDR, he received the Literature Research Fellowship of the Berlin Senate in 2021 and was a fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart in 2022. In 2024, his work “Peitschenstück” premiered at the Berliner Ensemble. 

(c) Paul Lovis Wagner

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