Wie der Krieg uns verändert – Lesung mit Olga Volynska

In the organizer's words:

"How War Changes Us"/"Art Against Artillery: Voices of Resilience" (2025) tells the story of Ukrainian cultural resistance during the war. The book gives artists a voice and tells of an incomprehensible cultural renaissance in the darkest of times - and how art becomes a form of resistance, remembrance and healing. The book also addresses cultural genocide, the destruction of cultural heritage and art theft - on a scale not seen in Europe since the Second World War. At the same time, it talks about a form of purification - a painful but necessary process of liberation from artificial narratives imposed by Russia.

The event takes place in the context of the exhibition "Antitext". The exhibition, conceived by the Museum of Literature, is making a stop at the German Museum of Books and Writing this summer and focuses on the consequences of censorship and the banning of literary texts for the cultural identity of a society.

The reading will be held in Ukrainian and translated into German. It was organized by the author and publisher Khrystyna Kozlovska, who already initiated the exhibition "before/after" on destroyed Ukrainian cultural sites at the German Museum of Books and Writing.

About the author
Olga Volynska is a journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and human rights
human rights activist from Dnipro (Ukraine). She has been reporting internationally on corruption, human rights violations and social injustice for over 15 years. Her documentary film 482 won an award at the PLURAL+ International Film Festival in New York. Her book "Wie der Krieg uns verändert" (2023) was recently published in German.

Information and contact

Venue: Lecture room, German National Library in Leipzig

Costs: Free admission

Duration: 60 minutes

Registration: No registration required

Checkroom information: You will need one or two euro coins to lock bags and rucksacks in the lockers.

Accessibility: The rooms in which the event takes place are barrier-free.

Contact: dbsm-info@dnb.de