After the death of her grandmother, Anna Schapiro’s narrator picks up a recording device and travels to Russia, Israel, and the United States. From the voices of her Soviet-Jewish family, «Fühlen Sie sich wie zu Hause, aber vergessen Sie dabei nicht, dass Sie zu Gast sind» evolves as a fragmented novel of an era. In Ilija Matusko’s «Jugo» the protagonist sits at his desk composing a reluctant love letter to his father, who after thirty years in Germany is undertaking a painful return to his Croatian homeland. Both debut novels play with fiction and biography, making the presence of the past palpable.
With Ilija Matusko, Anna Schapiro
Moderated by Viktoria Feldhaus
In German