Wind in My Headscarf: Roya Soraya's Moving Graphic Novel in Göttingen
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Wind in My Headscarf: A Moving Search for Belonging
Roya Soraya brings her autobiographical graphic novel Wind in My Headscarf to the Literaturhaus Göttingen on October 11, 2026. The event combines a reading and stage conversation into an intense exploration of heritage, identity, and the question of what home means when growing up between two cultures.
Between Iran and Germany
Roya grows up in an Iranian-German family. The Persian culture is familiar to her yet remains foreign. When she travels to Iran with her father, she encounters a country full of contrasts: shimmering landscapes, bazaars, mosques, and open people stand next to strict rules, political oppression, and the fear of not being able to live freely as a queer woman.
A Graphic Novel as a Stage Event
The staging of the event is created through the interplay of text, image, and conversation. Soraya's drawings open a visual resonance space, in which memories, family history, and self-discovery develop their own dramaturgy. In the stage discussion with text-image expert Nina de la Chevallerie, it becomes apparent how autobiographical storytelling gains new perspectives through the connection of comic, literature, and performative reading.
Memory, Loss, and Self-Determination
At the center is a final journey with her father. From this, Roya Soraya develops a multifaceted portrait of growing up between cultural expectations, personal freedom, and queer self-assertion. The art of acting recedes here in favor of a concentrated narrative form: voice, projection, visual language, and theater atmosphere carry the emotional tension.
An Author with a Distinct Artistic Signature
Roya Soraya was born in 1996 in Hannover, studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts, and works as an illustrator and comic author in Wuppertal. Her debut Faust retold Goethe's classic from a modern queer feminist perspective. For her artistic work, she received, among other things, grants and scholarships from the Goethe-Institut, the Kunststiftung NRW, and the Berlin Senate.
Conclusion: An Evening Between Image, Word, and Memory
The Göttingen stage experience promises a concentrated, personal, and politically aware encounter with an extraordinary graphic novel. Anyone wishing to experience literature, stage art, and visual storytelling in their immediate connection will find in Wind in My Headscarf an evening full of poetic images, subtle undertones, and big questions.
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