Tarbut - Reading "Russian specialties"
Dmitrij Kapitelman will be reading from his family novel "Russian Specialties" on Thursday, August 21, at 7:30 p.m. as part of the "Tarbut" cultural series at the Jewish Community of Wiesbaden at Friedrichstraße 33, hosted by Marita Hübinger, journalist at ZDF/ARTE.
Bittersweet and deeply political, Dmitrij Kapitelman writes about family and the (im)possibility of understanding in times of old and new wars in his new novel. A family from Kyiv sells Russian specialties in Leipzig. Vodka, pelmeni, SIM cards, sailor shirts - and a somehow Eastern European feeling of togetherness. Although the latter is no longer available since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The mother is on Putin's side. And her son, who loves no language more than Russian, no person more than his mother, but also no city more than Kyiv, is in despair. It is not wise of him to return to Ukraine in the middle of the war. But what should he do if there is no other way to get his mother back from fascism and the crazy Russian television lies? A book that only Dmitri Kapitelman can write: tragic, tender and funny at the same time.
About the author
Dmitrij Kapitelman, born in Kyiv in 1986, came to Germany with his family at the age of eight as a
to Germany with his family at the age of eight as a "contingent refugee". He studied political science and sociology at the University of Leipzig and graduated from the German School of Journalism in Munich.
The reading is part of the "Wiesbaden reads" series. The series is supported by the
funding program "Zukunftsfähige Innenstädte und Zentren" (ZIZ) of the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building.
Registration
Free admission. Registration required. Limited number of participants!
You can register by telephone on 0611/9333030 or by e-mail to lehrhausjg-wide