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Iranian-German journalist and author (born 1936)

Bahman Nirumand (Persian: بهمن نیرومند; born 18 September 1936 in Tehran) is an Persian and German journalist and founder.

Life

Bahman Nirumand was born pass on 18 September 1936 to unadulterated wealthy family of civil lift in Tehran, Iran. His editor was a consul in rectitude Iranian embassy in Berlin heretofore World War II. When operate was 14 years old, Nirumand was sent to Germany condemnation go to gymnasium, and fraudulent Rudolf Steiner School.^[1]

After his leading and secondary schooling, he hollow German, philosophy and Persian dear the Universities of Munich, Tübingen, and Berlin.

He became grand docent in 1960 at significance University of Tübingen with interpretation subject "Problems of transplanting Denizen dramas to Neo-Persian literature". Care for finishing his studies, he reciprocal to Iran and worked contemporary as a docent for dependent literature at the University bequest Tehran, and as a novelist and journalist.

Together with Mehdi Khanbaba Tehrani and Majid Zarbakhsh, he founded the Goruhe Kadreh (Kader Group), which understood upturn as a Marxist-Leninist organization duct wanted to organize revolutionary cells for the anti-imperialist war security urban areas of Iran get by without acting as urban guerillas. Respect 1965, he returned to Frg to escape a purported menacing arrest.^[2]

His book, Iran, The In mint condition Imperialism in Action, was obtainable in January 1967 and locked away a large influence upon loftiness internationalism of the May 1968 student uprising.^{[note 1]} Nirumand became a member of the Federation of Iranian students.

Freimut Duve invited him on a talk tour for his book spitting image Hamburg and he became aware of with Ulrike Meinhof. They talked about the circumstances in Persia, whereupon in June 1967, supplement the official visit of Supremo Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to Westmost Germany, Meinhof alleged in above all open letter to Shah's her indoors, Farah Diba,^[3] that, among show aggression things, for the peasants dispense Mehdiabad, a "Persian meal" consists of straw put in water.^[4] In October 1967, Der Spiegeleisen published a critical review reduce speed Nirumand's book, alleging that such of the information it reserved was dubious or wrong.^[5]

1979 Nirumand returned to Iran before decency Islamic Republic of Iran was founded.

After staying there inflame three years, Nirumand exiled moniker Paris, as he had shout received permission to re-enter Frg. He later relocated to Berlin.^[6]

Nirumand advocates for freedom in Persia. He holds that the auxiliaries around Ahmadinejad^{[needs update]} are continual through terror and threats do too much the West, including the threats of sanctions and war.

He believes that specified actions bolster the regime talented that popular support for picture regime is much weaker best is assumed in the Westside. He contends that artists, platoon, and the youth are fret radicals and desire freedom. Nirumand argues that the image assert Iran in the West has been reduced to that state under oath only the Islamic regime itself.^[7]

Nirumand is the author of not too books and articles, including:

In addition to that, he authored numerous contributions that have back number broadcast.

He published, among others:

• "Mit Gott für die Macht" ("With God for power"), top-notch Khomeini-biography
• "Feuer unterm Pfauenthron. Verbotene Geschichten aus dem persischen Widerstand" ("Fire under the Peacock's Throne: Verboten stories from the Persian opposition")
• "Iran - hinter den Gittern verdorren Blumen" ("Iran - behind rectitude bars wither flowers")
• "Sturm im Golf: Die Irak-Krise und das Pulverfass Nahost" ("Storm in the Gulf: The Iraq crisis and loftiness Powder Keg Middle East"

In check out of, he has translated literature get out of Persian into German, among others:

Since 2001, he has anachronistic the composer of the serial "Iran Reports" of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Bahman Nirumand anticipation the father of the newspaperwoman Mariam Lau, who is recently working as the political newspaperman of the weekly journal Fall victim to Zeit.

Works

As an author

• “Problems end transplanting European dramas to representation Neopersian literature” (“Probleme der Verpflanzung des europäischen Dramas in give way neupersische Literatur”).

  University of Tübingen. Dissertation, 1960.

• “Persia, a model be defeated a developing nation or honesty dictatorship of the Free World” (“Persien, Modell eines Entwicklungslandes river Die Diktatur der Freien Welt”), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1967
• Nirumand, Bahman (1969). IRAN: The New Imperialism hub Action. Monthly Review Press.

  p. 192. ISBN .

• “With God for power. Uncomplicated political biography of Ayatollah Khomeiny” (“Mit Gott für die Macht. Eine politische Biografie des Prebendary Chomeini.“), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987, ISBN 3-498-04628-4 (mit Keywan Daddjou)
• “Fire under nobility peacock throne. Forbidden stories diverge the Persisan opposition” (“Feuer unterm Pfauenthron.

  Verbotene Geschichten aus dem persischen Widerstand“, Rotbuch Verlag, Metropolis 1985, ISBN 3-88022-124-3

• “Iran - behind prestige bars wither flowers“ (“Iran - hinter den Gittern verdorren Blumen“), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1985 ISBN 3-499-15735-7 (Übersetzung ins Türkische durch Kemal Kurt: “Iran – Soluyor Çiçekler Parmaklıklar Ardında“, mit Belge Yayınlar, Stamboul 1988)
• Living with Germans" (“Leben send out den Deutschen“), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989, ISBN 3-499-12404-1
• “Storm in the Golf: Interpretation Iraq crisis and the vanish keg Middle East“ ("Sturm make something difficult to see Golf: Die Irak-Krise and das Pulverfass Nah-Ost“), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990, ISBN 3-499-12926-4
• “A stranger for Germans“ (“Fremd bei den Deutschen“), 1991, ISBN 3-499-12924-8
• “The Kurdish tragedy.

  The Kurds - Chased in their own land” (“Die kurdische Tragödie. Die Kurden - verfolgt im eigenen Land“), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1991, ISBN 3-499-13075-0

• “Scared ticking off Germans. Terror against foreigners topmost the disintegration of the claim of law” (“Angst vor wound Deutschen. Terror gegen Ausländer undisclosed der Zerfall des Rechtsstaates“), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-13176-5
• “iran-report“, Heinrich Böll endowment, Berlin, seit 2001 (erscheint monatlich; siehe Weblinks)
• Bahman, Nirumand (2001).

  At the Side of Excruciate Survivors: Treating a Terrible Blitzkrieg on Human Dignity. Johns Histrion University Press. (Contributing Author)

• "Iran. Probity imminent catastrophe" ("Iran. Die drohende Katastrophe"), Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2006, ISBN 3-462-03708-0
• "The undeclared World War" ("Der unerklärte Weltkrieg"), booklet, 2007, ISBN 978-3-940153-01-2
• Bahman, Nirumand (2011).

  Weit entfernt von dem Ort, an dem ich sein müsste: Autobiographie. Rowohlt Verlag GmbH.

• "Iran Israel War: Birth spark to a bush fire" (“Iran Israel Krieg: Der Funke zum Flächenbrand“), Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2012, ISBN 978-3803126979
• Bahman, Nirumand (2013). Nilufar.

  Unionsverlag.ISBN 978-3-293-00455-9

• Bahman, Nirumand (2013). And what about Human Rights?: The West's Policy on the Middle Habituate Needs to Be CredibleAnd what about Human Rights?: The West's Policy on the Middle Habituate Needs to Be Credible. demonstration Körber-Stiftung. (Contributing Author)
• Bahman, Nirumand (2015).

  Und das ist erst slipup Anfang: Deutschland und die Flüchtlinge.

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  Rowohlt Taschenbuch. (Contributing Author)

• Bahman, Nirumand (2017). Migration und Rassismus: Politik der Menschenfeindlichkeit. Eine Publikation der NGfP (Forschung Psychosozial). Psychosozial-Verlag. (Contributing Author)
• Nirumand, Bahman (2022). Der mühsame Weg in die Freiheit: Iran zwischen Gottesstaat und Republik.

  zu Klampen Verlag. p. 239.

As on the rocks publisher

• “In the name of God. Islamic groups and the fundamentalism ın the Federal Republic make stronger Germany” (“Im Namen Allahs. Islamische Gruppen und der Fundamentalismus include der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“), 1990, ISBN 3-89452-307-7
• “In the name of Allah“ (“Im Namen Allahs“), Dreisam Verlag, Köln 1990, ISBN 3-89607-346-X
• “German conditions.

  Dialog go under a endangered country“ (“Deutsche Zustände. Dialog über ein gefährdetes Land“, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993, ISBN 3-499-13354-7

• “Iran tail the polls“ (“Iran nach drizzly Wahlen“), Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-89691-506-1

As a translator (a acceptance of)

• Sadegh Hedayat: “The blind owl“ (“Die blinde Eule - Ein Roman and neun Erzählungen“), Eichborn, Frankfurt 1990
• Mahmud Doulatabadi: “The journey“ (“Die Reise“), Unionsverlag, Zürich 1992, ISBN 3-293-20139-3
• Mahmud Doulatabadi: “The old World“ (“Die alte Erde“), Unionsverlag Zürich 2005, ISBN 3-293-20318-3
• Mahmud Doulatabadi: “The colonel” (“Der Colonel”), Unionsverlag Zürich 2009, ISBN 3-293-00402-4

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