„Moscow Mule“

‘I just wanted to live, travel beyond all conceivable boundaries and roam freely along all roads.’ Karina and Tonya share everything — their studies at a Moscow university, drunk men, empty wallets, but above all: their goal of emigrating to Europe. While one part of Russian society wallows in luxury cars and caviar, the other struggles through life without means. Karina, too, has learned to master every situation with wit and madness. But more and more, her dreams are pushing her friendship with Tonya aside, and what once sounded like a grand ‘forever’ suddenly becomes fragile.



(in German)



Moderator: Wlada Kolosowa


Maya Rosa, born in 1987, was born and raised in Russia. She studied in Moscow and Berlin and is a graduate of the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. Maya Rosa lives with her family in Berlin.


Wlada Kolosowa, born in St. Petersburg in 1987, works as an editor at ZEIT. As a freelance journalist, she works for Spiegel Online, Der Tagesspiegel and rbb. She has already been with us with her novel ‘Der Hausmann’ (The Househusband) as part of ‘Berlin liest ein Buch’ (Berlin reads a book).