Goldstrand

Reading and discussion with Katerina Poladjan, moderated by Katharina Borchardt

July 2024 was dominated by Villa Massimo and the Stuttgart "Summer of the Arts" festival - as a former scholarship holder, Katerina Poladjan gave insights into her novel Goldstrand, which was still being written at the time, at the Long Night of Literature. Now it has been published: In the 1950s, a vacation resort is being built on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast: "Goldstrand", planned as a place in the sun for everyone. Eli is conceived on the building site. Sixty years later, he has long since celebrated his greatest successes as a film director and is lying on his dottoressa's couch in Rome. He speculates and fantasizes about his family history, which spans an entire century and across the European continent, from Odessa to Constantinople and Varna in Bulgaria to Rome. Katerina Poladjan combines fragments of old Europe to create a cheerful and melancholy picture of the present. Born in Moscow, she grew up in Rome and Vienna and lives in Germany. She writes prose, theater texts and essays.
In collaboration with Villa Massimo and SWR-Kultur, broadcast date: 7.11.