This is Genia (pronounced Zhenya). Genia was born in Ukraine and lived in Tel Aviv for a while until she moved to Germany for her studies in 2001. To Berlin she came six years ago where she now teaches English, French and Russian at a local high school and also writes her poetry. “Before I came to Berlin I mainly wrote for myself and friends”, she says, “but in Berlin everything changed”. She participated in her first poetry slam at…
