Lesung mit Dmitrij Kapitelman: "Russische Spezialitäten“

In the organizer's words:

Jewish Culture Days Bielefeld 2025

A family from Kyiv sells Russian specialties in Leipzig: vodka, pelmeni, SIM cards, ice cream, matryoshkas - and thus also a kind of Eastern European feeling of togetherness. Since the Russian attack on Ukraine, this feeling has dissolved: The mother is on Putin's side, believes Russian propaganda without a doubt. Her son, who loves Kyiv, his mother and above all the Russian language, travels to Ukraine despite the war, going with friends to Butscha and Irpin, among other places, where the Russian army has wreaked particularly cruel havoc. He associates the journey with the hope of freeing his mother from Russian lies and fascism. And he makes the painful experience of how much the Russian language also loses its meaning as a result of the war. Kapitelmann cleverly tells how the war damages many things in life.

Moderation: Dr. Udo Witthaus

With the kind support of the Central Council of Jews in Germany