{"id":92047,"date":"2025-06-12T09:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T07:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/authors\/yuriy-gurzhy\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T12:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:15:16","slug":"yuriy-gurzhy","status":"publish","type":"authors","link":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/yuriy-gurzhy\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuriy Gurzhy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">born in 1975 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. As a musician, composer, DJ, and author, Gurzhy has started and shaped numerous projects, including RotFront, Shtetl Superstars, The Disorientalists, and Kaminer &amp; Die Antik\u00f6rpers. In addition, he has curated and released more than a dozen internationally acclaimed compilations on renowned European labels. His literary debut, \u00bbRichard Wagner &amp; die Klezmerband. Auf der Suche nach dem neuen ju\u0308dischen Sound in Deutschland\u00ab [tr.: Richard Wagner &amp; the Klezmer Band. In Search of the New Jewish Sound in Germany], was published in 2022. From February 2022 to April 2024, he kept a war diary for the \u00bbTagesspiegel\u00ab, documenting the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine from a personal perspective. Yuriy Gurzhy regularly composes for theater productions, among others at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, the Nationaltheater Mannheim, the M\u00fcnchner Kammerspiele, the Theater der Jungen Welt in Leipzig, the Deutsch-Sorbisches Volkstheater in Bautzen, and the Teatr Lesi in Lviv. His last three albums were created in collaboration with the Ukrainian writer and musician Serhiy Zhadan His book\u202f\u00bbEin Aquarium voller Schl\u00fcssel. Charkiw und die Fotos meines Vaters\u00ab [tr.: An Aquarium Full of Keys. Kharkiv and My Father\u2019s Photographs], a multifaceted collection of snapshots and short stories from his hometown, will be published by Edition Fr\u00f6lich in September of 2025. 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