Dmitrij Kapitelman: A Decade in the Drawer - Reading and Conversation with Natalia Herrera

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After ten years as a reporter for ZEIT, Dmitrij Kapitelman knows them all: the beautiful, the ugly, the own, the foreign, the funny, and the sad sides of Germany. The homeland village of the murdered CDU politician Walter Lübcke. A warrant street in Offenbach? Eastern European Berlin during the Russian war against Ukraine.
In his novel "Russian Specialties" (Hanser Berlin, 2025), the Kyiv-born author who emigrated to Germany turns the bizarre distortions of reality of the present into the fantastic: Against the backdrop of the "Magasin," a shop for Russian specialties in Leipzig, people turn into oversized cigarettes, fish and machine guns start to speak, while the "damned tongue mother tongue" in the mouth of the warmonger lures the narrator's mother with TV lies. Kapitelman discusses his clever reports and touching novel with cultural mediator Natalia Herrera.
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Photo: © Paula Winkler Co-organizer: Egalitarian Jewish Chawurah Gescher e. V. Freiburg, funded by the Central Council of Jews in Germany Date: 19.11.2026, 19:30
Location: Literaturhaus Freiburg, Bertoldstraße 17
Admission: 11/7 Euro Reading and Conversation
Literature House

Highlights

• Reading and conversation with Dmitrij Kapitelman and Natalia Herrera
• Presentation of the novel "Russian Specialties"
• Date: 19.11.2026, 19:30

General Information

Dmitrij Kapitelman, former reporter for ZEIT, presents his new novel and discusses the various facets of Germany. The event takes place at Literaturhaus Freiburg and offers insights into his reports and literary works.

Location

Bertoldstraße 17, 79098 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

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