| Time: | July 1, 2022, 7:30 p.m. (CEST) |
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| Venue: | Literaturhaus Stuttgart Breitscheidstraße 4 70174 Stuttgart |
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"In the first second I refuse to understand this photo properly. My thoughts travel along secret paths." Katja Petrowskaja
Entitled “The Photograph Looked Back at Me", Katja Petrowskaja's columns were published this spring by Suhrkamp Verlag. They were created well before the outbreak of the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine. With great precision, they ask how we can find a language to understand our present. The current war demonstrates in the most brutal way how quickly and radically this can change. Katya Petrovskaya was already one of Ukraine's most influential intellectuals and most audible voices long before the outbreak of the war.
Her debut "Maybe Esther" (2014) has been translated into over 30 languages.
As part of the series, "Writing in Disenchanted Times", she joins Matthias Bormuth in conversation, where they will discuss writing during war, a time when "words freeze" (Tanja Maljartschuk).
Katja Petrowskaja, born in Kiev in 1970, has lived in Berlin and Tbilissisince 1999.
Matthias Bormuth is an author, Professor of The History of Political Thought at the University of Oldenburg, and the curator of this series. His most recent work
was "Screiben im Exil" (Writing in Exile). Portraits (2022).
This event is a cooperation between Literaturhaus Stuttgart, Hospitalhof/Evangelisches Bildungszentrum, International Center for Cultural and Technological Studies (IZKT) and Schauspiel Stuttgart.
[Picture: Gunter Glücklich/Suhrkamp Verlag]