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Aladin El-Mafaalani

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Aladin El-Mafaalani is a sociologist and professor of migration and educational sociology at TU Dortmund University and a member of the SFB 1604 ‘Production of Migration’ at IMIS at the University of Osnabrück. Among other things, he advises the Federal Youth Board of Trustees and the NRW Ministry of Family Affairs on issues relating to Muslim civil society. He was previously a professor in Osnabrück and Münster, head of the integration department at the NRW Ministry and a teacher in Ahlen. He studied in Bochum, obtained his doctorate there and published numerous academic works, including eleven books - several of them bestsellers, such as The Integration Paradox, The Education Myth and Why Racism? He has received numerous awards for his research and public work, including the Federal Cross of Merit and the German Sociological Association's Award for Public Effectiveness. He has been active at Keuning.haus since 2016, including as a presenter of Talk im DKH and Pentagon.

Hamminkeln

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Hamminkeln by Erdem Teper

so müssen wohl die bäume über die menschen denken, 
der mensch ist ewig damit beschäftigt 
versteht, dass alles und jeder irgendwo
eins ist 
versteht, dass alles –  liebt und lacht und lebt in frieden existiert; stoa
versteht, dass es ist – ebenbild 
wenn mensch findet sich selbst 
vor uralten baumrinden 
ein wesen schaut das andere an, 
am ende haben beide einander
und somit sich selbst erkannt 
beide aus gerüst, beide aus haut 
nur dass der baum im wald sich zutraut
zurecht, dass er den menschen überlebt; 
während die zeit bereits 
das leichentuch des menschen webt 
und der baum schaut den menschen an, 
beide aus haut, rinde und knochen 
nur hat der neue mensch 
seine beziehung zur natur unterbrochen

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Erdem Teper

Erdem Teper writes about everything that makes Erdem feel. Themes in his poetry are often taken from philosophical and religious contexts.

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