»Bukowina grüne Mutter!«– Buchvorstellung und Gespräch mit Peter von Kapri

In the organizer's words:

Who knows this little country? The Bukovina sung about by Rose Ausländer (1901-1988) and many others, which fell to the Habsburg monarchy 250 years ago and to which it belonged until 1918. Or even its capital Chernivtsi, once home to the easternmost German-speaking university, now the Ukrainian twin city of Düsseldorf under the name Chernivtsi?

Coming from a long-established Bukovinian family, Emanuel Michael Freiherr von Kapri (1894-1972) wrote the novel "Echo of a Bygone Age" in the 1950s, in which he describes life at the end of the 19th century in this "little Europe", in which 17 different nationalities lived together peacefully. Let yourself be whisked away to a bygone world full of cultural diversity, ancient customs and impressive landscapes. You will learn about the history of Bukovina, which was torn between two sides, and see impressive images from a region that today belongs partly to Romania and partly to Ukraine.