Two voices, two perspectives, one shared question: What does it mean to arrive in Germany and truly belong? The Russian-German journalist Ira Peter, author of "German Enough? Why We Finally Need to Talk About Russian Germans," and the Jewish-Ukrainian author Mihail Groys, author of "My German Story: How I, as a Ukrainian Jew, See My New Home," will read from their books and discuss identity, migration, and life between worlds.
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Both share the experience of growing up in Germany as children of post-Soviet migration and the search for a place in a society that still grapples with its relationship to immigration, memory, and origin. Their conversation will explore belonging and exclusion, language, religion, racism, antisemitism, and humor as survival strategies. And it will delve into the question of what "being German" means today.
An encounter full of contradictions, insights, and surprising commonalities.
Registration is required by phone at +49 30 933 9380.
Please inform the team if you are unable to attend.
Free admission; a donation to the Friends of the Marzahn-Hellersdorf City Library is requested upon departure.
Photos and/or videos will be taken at some events in the city library and may be published on the website and on Facebook.
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Dates
February 2026
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