Katerina Poladjan: Goldstrand

In the organizer's words:

Reading as part of the LiteraTour Nord, moderated by Matthias Lorenz

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 was born in Moscow, grew up in Rome and Vienna and lives in Germany. She writes theater texts and essays, won the Nelly Sachs Prize (2021) and took part in the 2015 Days of German-Language Literature.

Matthias Lorenz is Professor of Modern German Literature and Comparative Literature at Leibniz Universität Hannover and Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

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