Special Format

In Transit #2

Tanja Maljartschuk

ANCB, in collaboration with the ZEIT-Stiftung, invites protagonists from literature, sociology, arts and civil society for a conversation, a reading or a performance about land and territory, the concepts of ownership and translocation, protection and borders.

Introduction

ANCB, in collaboration with the ZEIT-Stiftung, invites protagonists from literature, sociology, arts and civil society for a conversation, a reading or a performance about land and territory, the concepts of ownership and translocation, protection and borders. Some participants will also share their personal experience with exile, transit, inclusion and exclusion, longing and belonging, adding a special voice to these global, challenging and pressing themes.

This series is part of ANCB’s long-term programme Borders and Territories: Identity in Place, discussing the spatial consequences of geopolitical, socio-cultural, economic and ecological aspects of home, displacement, migration and identity in a transdisciplinary dialogue. It also represents a continuation of the project Transit Spaces in collaboration with the ZEIT-Stiftung.

Programme

Tanja Maljartschuk, Writer and Winner of the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 2018, Vienna (in German)
Ukrainian-born and Vienna-based author Tanja Maljartschuk reads excerpts from her work and talks about life in the in-between. Tanja Maljartschuk was born in Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine and studied Ukrainian Philology at the Prykarpattia National University before working as a television journalist in Kiev for several years. Since 2011, she has been living in Austria. Her most recent publication in German is the novel Blauwal der Erinnerung (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2019). While the original texts were written in Ukrainian, Tanja Maljartschuk will read from the German translation, followed by statements on the following questions: What does home mean to you? Can you also feel that you have arrived in the ‘in-between’? You looked for Ukrainian traces abroad – what did you find and how did these traces overcome borders?

Video © Reframe

In collaboration with:
ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg

Supported by:
Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin
Norwegian Embassy, Berlin
Danish Embassy, Berlin

Lab Talk Series:

In Transit