1994

BILINGUAL LOVE

Moroccan Writers after Independence

Morocco. Since the country's independence in 1956, young writers have begun the search for a new identity, and not only a literary one. This is still a particular problem today in a country where several languages are in use and where 70 percent of the population can neither read nor write. Although the official language is Arabic, the three Berber population groups speak three different Berber dialects. In the north of the country Spanish is still partly used, and throughout Morocco French serves as the "opening to the outside world" and as the second language of the administration.

Recent Moroccan literature exists in all these languages. The soirée presents the most important writers of Morocco's younger generations and thus tries to offer an insight into the deeper secrets of the country, which normally remain hidden from tourists.

VOICES	Nina Danzeisen, Christine Davis, Jurgen Andreas, Christian Brückner, Heinz Schimmelpfennig, Rolf Schult, Andreas Szerda and Charles Wirths
MUSIC	Moroccan and Andalusian folk music
DIRECTOR	Harald Koerner
SOUND ENGINEER	Roland Seiler / Regine Schneider
EDITOR	Gerhard Adler
DURATION	120 minutes
FIRST BROADCAST	SWF 28.1.95 S 2 Soirée
REPEAT BROADCAST	SWF 7.9.1996 S2 Kultur

Photo: Wolfgang Fischer, Wikimedia Commons, licence CC BY-SA 4.0 – cropped, border added.