Traumaland – eine Spurensuche in deutscher Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Mit Asal Dardan und Dmitrij Kapitelman

In the organizer's words:

The German past painfully protrudes into our present: remembering is necessary, the responsibility of those born after remains. In Traumaland, the writer Asal Dardan ("Betrachtungen einer Barbarin") goes in search of traces in the German past and present and shows parallel and contrary experiences in the immigration society. Which memories are heard, which are not? How do we deal with past guilt? She talks about these questions with the author Dmitrij Kapitelman. He came to Germany in the early 1990s as a Jewish "contingent refugee" and directly experienced the anti-Semitism and racism of the post-reunification years. In his novels (including "Russian Specialties" and "A Formality in Kiev"), he repeatedly writes about his experiences of immigration in an inimitable way. Moderator: Ferdos Forudastan