Anna Melikova »Ich ertrinke in einem fliehenden See«. Lesung mit der Autorin

In the organizer's words:

Venue: Central Library in KAP 1, Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1, 40210 Düsseldorf

She comes from the Ukrainian Crimea and is strongly influenced by Russian culture. At Kyiv University, she meets a woman who is only three years older - and who captivates her for years. Based on her own experiences, Anna Melikova tells how her protagonist falls in love with her lecturer, becomes estranged from her father and his pro-Russian world view and experiences hostility herself - partly because of the Russian language and partly because of her Ukrainian dialect.

The novel also depicts growing up in a country where the older generation is characterized by camps and Soviet influence, while the youth longs for change and EU membership.

Anna Melikova was born in Ukraine in 1984, grew up in Crimea and has lived in Berlin since 2017. After studying German language and literature in Kyiv, she worked as a film curator and critic in Moscow. She wrote the screenplay for the film Grand Jeté and prose texts for various magazines and anthologies.

Moderator: Maren Jungclaus (Literaturbüro NRW)

A joint event of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus Foundation, Literaturbüro NRW and the Düsseldorf City Libraries