Fereydoun Farrokhzad

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Birth name Fereydoun Farrokhzad
Nationality Iran
Birth 7 october 1938 at Tehran (Iran)
Death 7 august 1992 (at 53 years) at Bonn (German)

Fereydoun Farrokhzad (Persian: فریدون فرخزاد‎‎) (October 7, 1938 – August 8, 1992) was an Iranian singer, actor, poet, TV and radio host, writer, and iconic opposition political figure. He is best known for his successful show variety TV show "Mikhak-e Noghrei" (The Silver Carnation). He was the brother of the acclaimed Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad and Pooran Farrokhzad.

He was forced into exile after the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and after relocating to Germany was the victim of an unsolved murder. The murder is "widely believed to be the work of The Islamic Republic of Iran".

Biography

Fereydoun Farrokhzad was born in Chahar Raheh Gomrok (Gomrok Intersection), a neighborhood in Tehran, Iran. He was the fourth of seven children (Pouran, Amir(masoud),Forough, Fereydoun, Gloria, Mehrdad and Mehran). After graduating from high school he went to Germany and Austria for his post-secondary education. He got his Advanced Graduate degree in Political Science from the Munich University.
At a young age Farrokhzad had a passion for poetry and for singing. He turned that passion to reality in 1962 when he started writing poems in German which were published in two German newspapers. In 1964 Farrokhzad published his collection of poems called "Fasleh Deegar" (Another Season). His book was critically acclaimed and was honored by many famous German poets. Five months after the release of "Fasleh Deegar" Farrokhzad received the Poetry Award of Berlin. For a couple of years Farrokhzad was a member of the Munich Academy of Poetry. In 1966 he found his way to the Television and Radio of Munich. On Radio he had a comedy and music program which played middle eastern music including music from Iran. On TV he created and produced a show called خيابان های آلپ (Alpine Roads). In 1967 he returned to Iran and performed on successful radio and TV shows. His most successful and famous TV show was "Mikhakeh Noghrei" (Silver Carnation), and his radio show which aired every other Friday mornings called Jom'eh Bazzar (Friday Baazzaar). The TV show was watched by millions of Iranians. On the show Farokhzad introduced and discovered many famous Iranian artists including Sattar, Shohreh, Shahram Solati, Ebi, Morteza, Rouhi Savoji, Hamid Shabkhiz, Leila Forouhar, Saeed Mohammadi and many more. After the 1979 revolution, Farrokhzad was imprisoned, then released. He escaped the country and settled in the country of his youth college years, Germany.

Personal life
Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh mentioned that Farrokhzad was homosexual. He said: "His main obstacle was the homosexuality that he was not ashamed of; he knew it and he wanted people to understand it. However that time was too early for understanding that this is a genetic occurrence; For people it had other meanings. They used to think of homosexuals as passive and disreputable individuals. Farrokhzad wanted to break this taboo alone; In a culture that still has not accepted homosexuality. I asked him several times not to tell, at least for now."

Farrokhzad married and divorced twice. His first marriage took place in 1962, to a German/Polish woman named Ania Buchkowski, whom he met in Oxford. Like Farrokhzad, she had a passion for poetry and theater; it was after meeting her that Farrokhzad started writing poems. The result of this marriage was a son named Rostam. Farrokhzad and Ania later separated and got divorced. His second marriage was in January 1974 with an Iranian girl named Taraneh which also ended in divorce.