Brennen (Burning)

“I don't remember exactly how many of these blazing fires I've survived, but I know they've left their mark. Large wounds that heal slowly, and tiny little scars that I can't even see, but which are still there. Because injuries aren't always visible.”

Twelve years after fate tore them apart, the narrator of Daniel Donskoy's debut novel Brennen feels compelled to write to his friend Tyler: about the life that has passed since the summers of their youth in Tel Aviv. About filming in the Russian snow shortly before the war, about a Sicilian hunting party and a fearless dachshund, a film studio in flames near Auschwitz, about the existential struggle against a powerful British woman – a story of exuberance, despair, and burning passion.

With a pace that is impossible to resist and in a language that is both stirring and comforting, Donskoy writes about new beginnings, about intoxication and the longing for belonging.

Daniel Donskoy, born in Moscow in 1990, grew up in Berlin and Tel Aviv. After training as an actor in London and New York, he soon became one of the most sought-after German actors of his generation internationally. He has appeared in successful Netflix and Disney+ productions as well as acclaimed feature films. He developed and hosted the award-winning ARD show “Freitagnacht Jews.”

• Wednesday, 29.10.2025 | 19:00
  

Location: Colosseum
Gleimstraße 33
10437 Berlin

(Event in German Language)