Katerina Poladjan liest aus: Goldstrand - Literarischen Wochen 2026

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Katerina Poladjan reads from: Goldstrand

Literary Weeks 2026

A dilapidated villa in Rome, an enigmatic dottoressa, a man on a couch tells a story about his life: In her new novel
"Goldstrand", Katerina Poladjan combines fragments of old Europe to create a cheerful, melancholy picture of the present.
In the 1950s, a vacation resort is being built on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast: Goldstrand, planned as a place in the sun for everyone. Eli is conceived on the building site. Sixty years later, he has long since celebrated his greatest successes as a film director and is lying on his dottoressa's couch in Rome. He speculates and fantasizes about his family history, which spans an entire century and across the European continent, from Odessa to Constantinople and Varna in Bulgaria to Rome.

"Katerina Poladjan is a quiet star of contemporary German-language literature." Christoph Schröder, SWR Kultur
"[...] elegant and in a wonderful language, I was completely blown away." Denis Scheck, WDR 2

Katerina Poladjan was born in Moscow, grew up in Rome and Vienna and lives in Germany. She writes theater texts and essays. Her prose debut "In einer Nacht, woanders" was followed by "Vielleicht Marseille" and together with Henning Fritsch she wrote the literary travelogue "Hinter Sibirien". She has received various awards, including being nominated for the Alfred Döblin Prize and the European Prize of Literature. In 2021, she was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize. In 2022, Katerina Poladjan was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize with "Zukunftsmusik" and was honored with the Rheingau Literature Prize. In 2025 she received the Grand Prize of the German Literature Fund.

VA no.: 26F20103, start of registration: 19.01.2026

Advance booking starts in mid-January at the VHS Bremerhaven

Price information:

9,00 € (advance booking); 10,00 € Box Office