Fort von Zuhaus – OSTPOL BERLIN Festival OPENING

Away from Home...

Festive opening night featuring contemporary poetry, prose, and music by Belarusian artists based in Berlin

featuringJulia Cimafiejeva (poetry), who recounts her family’s life over the course of a century and their “journey away from home,”

featuringAlhierd Bacharevič (prose), who asks, “What does it mean today to be a writer, an emigrant, a man, a Belarusian, a European? Above all, what does it mean to be human?”

featuringWTBSK (Sveta Ben, vocals/lyrics & Sergey Novitsky, electronics), whose music is a blend of trip-hop, noise, techno, and psychedelic and explores themes of exile, hope, and the reality in Belarus. 

HostMartin Jankowski
Speaker:Ulrike Almut Sandig

The event will be held in German with passages in English and Belarusian (and translations).