October 8, 2025 / 7.30 pm / Literature Café

THE UKRAINIAN LIBRARY

"break out and break open"

Juri Andruchowytsch, Tanja Maljartschuk & Marcel Beyer talk about Taras Schewtschenko & Lesja Ukrajinka.

Concept & moderation: Claudia Dathe. Cellist Eduard Resatsch will accompany the reading with musical contributions. The actress Verena Noll will read from the German translations.

Rebel, exile, voice of lost freedom - Taras Shevchenko traces his life between province and center, between resistance and subjugation in poems and diary entries from the 1840s to 1860s. Lesja Ukrajinka tells of the social and personal upheavals of the beginning of modernity at the end of the 19th century, focusing in particular on the lives of women.

Juri Andruchowytsch, Marcel Beyer and Tanja Maljartschuk will present Taras Schewtschenko's selected volume "Flieg mein Lied, meine wilde Qual" and Lesja Ukrajinka's volume of stories "Am Meer" (both published by Wallstein Verlag) and talk about writing in the context of social upheaval and resistance in the past and present.

Admission: 10,- / 7,- EUR

Event in cooperation with the Network of Houses of Literature as part of the project "Ukrainian Library. Classics in the Context of Contemporary Europe", funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education

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Yuri Andrukhovych (*1960), Ukrainian author of numerous novels and essays with a geopoetic approach to Eastern Europe, translated into German many times, including "Zwölf Ringe" (2003) and "Radionacht" (2022). Multiple awards, including the Heinrich Heine Prize 2022.

Marcel Beyer (*1965), poet, publication of numerous volumes of poetry, most recently "Dämonenräumdienst" (2020), member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry.

Claudia Dathe (*1971), translator from Ukrainian and cultural mediator, various projects on Eastern European cultures and literatures, translations of Serhij Zhadan, Yevgenia Belorusets and Marianna Kijanowska, among others, co-editor of the Ukrainian Library.

Tanja Maljartschuk (*1983), Ukrainian-Austrian author and essayist. Numerous novels, short stories and essay collections. 2018 winner of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, co-editor of the Ukrainian Library.

Verena Noll (*1971), actress, founded the Leipzig theater company erweiterte zugeständnisse leipzig/wien in 2006. As a speaker, she has been reading for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Leipzig Book Fair and various venues in Austria and Switzerland for many years.

Eduard Resatsch (*1972), member of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, numerous original compositions, commissioned works and arrangements, including Valentin Sylwestrow's choral work "Prayer for Ukraine"