Fereydoun Farrokhzad

Fereydoun Farrokhzad (Persian فریدون فرخزاد; * 1938 in Tafresch, Iran, † August 6, 1992 in Bonn) was an Iranian political scientist and poet, singer and actor.

Life

Farokhzad completed his academic education study program in Political Science from a PhD in the Federal Republic of Germany. He is the younger brother of the famous Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad.

Farokhzad is still regarded as one of the most famous singers and entertainers of modern Iranian music history. Many stars of the Iranian music scene of the 1970s came into his program on a higher level of awareness. Many of his songs draw from a very special vitality and joy, and they usually lack the conspicuous in many of his contemporary artists melancholy.

Exile and assassination in Germany

Politically, Farokhzad sat for a secular course and for the quietist separation of state from religion, a. He advocated the re-establishment of the Iranian Empire on a democratic basis and dealt with this as well as his opposition to the ruling since 1979 the clergy in political struggle songs. Here, he used his great and artistic demonstrations in European and American cities in appearance.

It is believed that he, because he was a critic of the 1979 built in Iran theocratic regime, was murdered on August 6, 1992 at his home in Bonn, where he was found three days later stabbed and beheaded.

Fereydoun Farokhzad was buried at the North Cemetery Bonner. Given the limited duration of the first tomb funding for a new grave were applied in the same cemetery, so a solemn reburial could take place in 2007 after a study conducted among Iranians action.