Russische Spezialitäten

with Dimitrij Kapitelman, moderated by Anat Feinberg

In his new novel "Russian Specialties", Dmitrij Kapitelman writes bittersweetly and deeply politically about family and the (im)possibility of understanding in times of old and new wars. A family from Kyiv sells Russian specialties in Leipzig. Vodka, pelmeni, SIM cards, sailor shirts - and a kind of Eastern European feeling of togetherness that 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, despairs. Dimitrij Kapitelman, born in Kyiv in 1986, came to Germany with his family at the age of eight. He studied political science and sociology at the University of Leipzig and graduated from the German School of Journalism in Munich. Today he works as a freelance journalist. His debut "The Smile of My Invisible Father" was published in 2016, followed by "A Formality in Kiev" in 2021.
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