Buchpreisfeier: Katerina Poladjan

A European Century on the Couch: In *Goldstrand*, Katerina Poladjan—born in Moscow in 1971—paints a panorama of the European era through scenes that are both cheerful and melancholic, rich in visual imagery. At the center is Eli, a film director in his sixties living in Rome. Lying on his psychoanalyst’s couch, he looks back on his life and weaves the tale of his convoluted family history.

This story unfolds in fragments of memory across the continent: from his grandfather’s flight from Odessa in 1922, through Constantinople, to the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. There, in the 1950s, the utopian socialist resort of Goldstrand emerges, where Eli is conceived, before the story leads to present-day Rome.

Here, Poladjan cleverly lays the myths and ideologies of an entire century bare.

The Deutsches Theater and S. Fischer Verlag invite you to a literary evening with Katerina Poladjan.

(in German)