Exklusive Berlinlesung: Daniel Donskoy im Colosseum

In the organizer's words:

Actor and author Daniel Donskoy celebrates the Berlin premiere of his debut novel BRENNEN with live music followed by a discussion with author Judith Poznan!

"I don't know exactly how many of these blazing fires I have survived, but I do know that they have left their mark. Big wounds that are slowly healing and tiny little scars that I can't even see, but that are there nonetheless. Because injuries are not always visible."

Twelve years after fate tore them apart, the narrator of Daniel Donskoy's debut novel Brennen is compelled to write to his friend Tyler about the life that has passed since the summers of their youth in Tel Aviv. Of filming in the Russian snow just before the war, of a Sicilian hunting party and a fearless dachshund, of a film studio on fire near Auschwitz, of the existential struggle against a powerful British woman - a story of exuberance, despair and burning passion.

With a pace that is impossible to resist and in a language that both stirs and comforts, Donskoy writes about new beginnings, intoxication and the longing to belong.

"Daniel Donskoy is wild, desperate, knowing, searching, reflective. He shouts and whispers, and he is truthful when he asks: What is life?" - Iris Berben

"A young man with a tractor driver's license runs through the world that burns beneath his feet. A cheeky, passionate, clever book." - Vladimir Kaminer

Daniel Donskoy, born in Moscow in 1990, grew up in Berlin and Tel Aviv. After training as an actor in London and New York, he soon became one of the most internationally sought-after German actors of his generation. He has starred in successful Netflix and Disney+ productions as well as acclaimed feature films. He developed and hosted the award-winning ARD show "Freitagnacht Jews".