feeLit 2026: Jurij Andruchowytsch – Briefe in die Ukraine

In the organizer's words:

From July 2 to 5, feeLit - International Literature Festival Heidelberg and its authors will be making a guest appearance at halle02 for the second time. Our festival venue is all about books and writing. This year, feeLit presents national and international literary stars and brings authors together with their audience.

feeLit 2026: Jurij Andruchowytsch - Letters to the Ukraine

Language: German

Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine's most important voices worldwide. The fact that his literary career began as a young poet is less well known here. This volume, compiled by him and the American Slavicist Adrian Wanner, contains a selection of his poems from all the cycles he wrote during the Soviet era, during his student years in Lviv and Moscow and after founding the legendary literary performance group Bu-Ba-Bu between 1980 and 1990. They bear witness to an impressive stylistic diversity in poetry, whereby author and translator agreed on a formal criterion: only poems with rhymes and regular meter were selected.

Jurij Andruchowytsch, born in 1960 in Iwano-Frankiwsk in western Ukraine, studied journalism and began his literary career as a poet. Today, he is one of the best-known contemporary European authors. His work includes poetry, essays and novels and has been translated into 20 languages. In 1985, Andrukhovych co-founded the legendary literary performance group Bu-Ba-Bu - short for Burlesk, Balagan, Buffonada - which had a lasting impact on the Ukrainian literary scene. Andrukhovych lives in Ivano-Frankivsk.

"When Yuri Andrukhovych starts up his high-speed narrative machine, there is an immediate state of emergency. In poetic and political terms."
Werner Krause, Kleine Zeitung, Graz

"Andrukhovych's literature is a ... melting pot: cross-references and allusions lie on top of each other like layers, sometimes flashing through more, sometimes less clearly."
Kristine Harthauer, SWR2

An event in cooperation with Wunderhorn Verlag.

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• Only cashless payment (EC card, credit card, contactless) is possible at our venue: halle02.de/cashless
• Seated event, free choice of seats
• Local organizer: FeeLit - International Literature Festival Heidelberg
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