Riverbend (blogger)

Riverbend ( German for " river bend " ) is the pseudonym of the author of the blog Baghdad Burning, on which they reported on Baghdad and Iraq after the second war in Iraq since 17 August 2003.

Personal

The identity of Riverbend is carefully kept secret, but the weblog entries suggest that she is an unmarried Iraqi mid-twenties and comes from a mixed Shiite- Sunni family. She lives with her ​​parents and her brother in a residential area of ​​the middle class in the north of Baghdad. Before the outbreak of the war she worked as a programmer of an Iraqi IT company. Your excellent English and blog entries suggest a long stay abroad. Your entries contain both political statements, as well as insights into the lives of the occupied Iraq.

On 26 April 2007 Riverbend announced that she and her family were leaving because of the lack of security in Baghdad and the ongoing ethnic violence in Iraq. On September 6, 2007, she reports on her blog that she and her family have safely reached Syria.

On April 9, 2013 Riverbend reports with a review of the past ten years. She has since left Syria and stays in another Arab country.

Adaptations of the blog

Riverbend Blog Entries were in German as Baghdad Burning. A diary published. In March 2005, a play was performed in the West End Theatre in New York, which is related to the blog. The English print version of the blog was awarded the third prize in the Lettre Ullyses Award 2005. 2006 appeared in Hörverlag an audiobook version, read by Sophie Rois. A German -language stage version of the text was first performed by the Bruchsal State Theatre in October 2006. The Austrian premiere with Katharina Vötter took place at Vienna's Theater in January 2009. A radio play version in the processing of Peter and John of duffel directed by Ulrich lamps was urgesendet from Nordwestradio on 10 July 2009.

2006, the book was also included in the nomination list for the Samuel Johnson Prize.