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Im
Juni 2005 bereiste Sean Penn zusammen mit
Norman Solomon, mit dem er schon seine
erste Irak-Reise unternommen hatte, und dem befreundeten Journalisten
Reese Erlich im Auftrag des San Francisco Chronicle den Iran, um über die
dort anstehenden Wahlen zu berichten.
Die daraus entstandene Artikelserie ist Sean Penn`s eigene
Berichterstattung über das Land Iran, mit Eindrücken der Kultur dieses
Landes und seinem Dialog mit Politikern, Studenten und Demonstranten.
Sean Penn berichtet im Chronicle in einer fünfteiligen Serie über seine
Reiseerlebnisse.
1. Teil - 22.08.2005:
Tag Eins - A culture in deep conflict
Ankunft in Teheran – Erste Eindrücke –
Teilnahme an den Freitagsgebeten im Stadion der Teheraner Universität
Leseprobe:
The
agent whose large hands had rolled my black-inked fingers and palms over
several printing forms barked at me to follow him with a wave of his
hand. He led me to a men's room, where he swung open the door and
indicated I should go in ahead of him. It was a bit of a ratty hole.
Water closets, open. Worn, reflectionless mirrors. Where our standard
toilets might sit, these are simply holes in the floor, with dark
glimmering puddles beneath, and fluorescent light above. He just stared
at me. Neither threateningly, nor warmly. Seconds went by as I stared
back. Neither threatened, nor comfortable. "Now what?" I said.
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2. Teil - 23.08.2005:
Tag Zwei - A meeting with Rafsanjani`s son
Treffen
mit dem Sohn des ehemaligen Präsidenten, Mehdi Rafsanjani – Eindrücke
vom Großen Bazar von Teheran
Leseprobe:
At the same time, I found myself approached with hundreds of
opportunities for interviews with all those on the journalists’
circuit of interviewees. I was offered interviews over here, interviews
over there. I was even contacted for a potential interview with former
president and candidate Rafsanjani himself. But I was a little
uninterested in most of it. (…) You begin to lose your clarity,
focusing entirely on the power establishment and losing the important
story of any land: its people.
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3. Teil - 24.08.2005:
Tag Drei - A meeting with the grandson of Ayatollah
Khomeini
Geheimes
Treffen mit Hassan Khomeini, dem Enkel des Ayatollah – Dinnerparty
(ohne Alkohol) mit der Creme de la Creme der iranischen Filmwelt -
Fototermin mit Ex-Präsident Rafsanjani
Leseprobe:
He
(Hassan Khomeini ) had been told that I had gone to the Friday prayers,
so he began the interview by asking my feelings about that. I told him
that while the sea of belief in Islam had been impressive, that the use
of seductive rage in the chants of "Death to America" and
"Death to Israel" are taken quite literally by mothers and
fathers in the United States. I said that it seemed to me a highly
destructive and inaccurate representation of the country I had come to
learn about. Hassan listened with kind interest. His eyes didn't leave
me as the translator made clear my statement. He uttered a very brief
sentence in Farsi. He said, "Then we should change it."
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4. Teil - 25.08.2005:
Tag Vier - Witness of a demonstration in support of
women`s rights
Sean Penn als
Teilnehmer einer Studentendemonstration für das Recht der Frauen an der
Teheraner Universität
Leseprobe:
There
was screaming and panic. And our bodies were four-walling each other --
you could barely move. It certainly seemed as if some could have been
trampled, though as far as I know, that did not occur. But the following
describes the irony of oppression: There was a woman among the panicking
crowd. She reached her hand toward mine and I took it. Between us, we'd
support each other out of this chaos. All of this couldn't have lasted
more than 40 seconds, but at the end of it, the force of the police had
only forced an illegal touch between a man and a woman. We parted
instantly as the police stepped back from the line they had been
assaulting.
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5. Teil - 26.08.2005:
Tag Fünf - Trouble before returning to the United
States
Bombenexplosion am Imam Hussein Square in Teheran – Treffen mit
Elaheh Kuyai, Sprecherin von Dr. Mostafa Moin, dem Präsidentschaftskandidat
der Studenten – Auszeichnung des Iranischen Filmmuseums - Heimreise
Leseprobe:
The Film Museum of Iran had asked for the opportunity to honor me.
I accepted for two reasons: First, I have deep respect for the
creative talent in the motion picture business in Iran, and many of
them were being pulled away from other engagements or had offered to
join in this event. Additionally, it was a way to appease what had
been a fairly aggressive and annoying media that I was very interested
in boring into the submission of not following me to the airport. So I
went. On the drive there, as we were passing under the trees of Mellat
Park, there was an announcement on the radio that some arrests had
been made in the previous day's bombings. But no details. Later, at
the museum, I was given a tour and a trophy.
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Über den
`San
Francisco Chronicle`
Der `San Francisco Chronicle` ist die führende Tageszeitung im Großraum San
Francisco, der sogenannten `Bay Area`. Die Zeitung, die bereits sechs Mal
mit ihren Berichten den renommierten Pulitzer-Preis gewonnen hat, ist die
zehntgrößte Tageszeitung der USA und mit
SFGate.com die viertgrößte
Netzzeitung des Landes. Die Website wird monatlich von ca. 5.3 Millionen
Usern besucht, mit über 64 Millionen Seitenklicks im Monat1
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