Ani Menua is a writer and philosopher who finally found her way to Berlin after a journey that began in Yerevan, took her to Moscow and then Wiesbaden before she finally landed in the German capital. Ani writes our monthly Berlinograd 1920s column and she has just published her first book. So we think it is high time that we introduce her to you! Where were you born? I was born in the beautiful, magical, bohemian and ancient city of…
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Elena Margulis is an entrepreneur and the founder of fEast – a series of events in Berlin which aim to show the diversity of Eastern European culture. We met the Ukrainian in Prenzlauer Berg…
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With her documentary photographs in the illustrated book “Moskva” Sandra Ratkovic directs her gaze to the ordinary everyday life of the people in Moscow and captures with her camera strange, absurd and bizarre moments…
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The photographer Heinrich Völkel and the poet Hendrick Jackson embark on a literary journey through the vastly unknown Russian province. This journey is premised on the thesis that essentially all places outside of Moscow…
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Mitja Vachedin was born in 1982 in today’s St Petersburg. He spent the first twenty years of his life in communist, and then the following capitalist Russia, until he moved to Germany where he…
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My very favorite Russian alternative arts festival in the world is taking place in Berlin this weekend, and I can’t wait to meet all those great (Russian-speaking) Berliners. Ruberoid Festival is an intercultural arts…
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This is Dmitriy. Dmitriy grew up in St. Petersburg and came to Mainz, Germany when he was 17. He stayed in Mainz for his studies and then moved on to Bonn, where he worked…