August 2017: The news dropped like a bomb. Doğan Akhanlı, a writer living in exile in Germany, was arrested while on holiday in Granada, Spain. Turkey had called for his detention via Interpol. In Verhaftung in Granada (Arrest in Granada), Akhanlı not only reports on that fateful summer, but also on previous, in some cases long-term, periods of imprisonment. His accounts are personal, poignant and harrowing, portraying the history of both the left and a Turkish state in transition. These experiences put Doğan Akhanlı on the long list of journalists, authors and critics of the government who have been imprisoned in Turkey. Director Nuran David Calis is now presenting his adaptation from the Schauspiel Köln as a staged reading in Studio
