Buchpremiere »Zungenbrecher« mit Karina Papp und Lin Hierse

In her extraordinary debut "Zungenbrecher", Karina Papp tells the story of Kiera, a young woman who moves from St. Petersburg to Berlin to build a new life for herself. She begins to study, falls in love, discovers her queerness, avoids her parents' expectations and throws herself into translating texts. While wars and crises shake the world, Kiera searches for her own voice.
The book uniquely weaves together three languages - Russian, English and German - to create a poetic narrative about identity, resistance and the search for beauty in a fracturing world. It is a work about love, desire and belonging that touches gently and painfully at the same time.

On the evening, Karina Papp will read from her debut and talk to Lin Hierse about the challenges of her protagonist and the author's clever thoughts on language and being. Tickets are available here.

Karina Papp is an author and translator born in Latvia in 1988. She studied journalism and literature in Russia. She has lived in Berlin since 2013. In her search for interlingual and politically conscious literary forms, Karina combines writing with translation. She is the recipient of several DÜF Radial scholarships for translators. Her texts have been published in the literary journals Neznanie, m ZIN and Soft Eis Magazine. "Zungenbrecher" is her first novel.

Lin Hierse is a writer and journalist. Her texts and columns appear in the taz, Zeit Online and literary magazines, among others. Following her highly acclaimed debut "Wovon wir träumen" (Piper, 2022), "Das Verschwinden der Welt" is her second novel. Lin Hierse lives and works in Berlin.