’Like Light in the Darkness’ – New German translations of Ukrainian literature + Books on Ukraine from German publishers

Ukraine in wartime: a love story (maybe). He reports to the front, she goes to Paris. Can love endure such...

Ukraine in wartime: a love story (maybe). He reports to the front, she goes to Paris. Can love endure such obstacles? The war in Ukraine didn’t begin on 24 February 2022; Russian forces acting on the orders of the Kremlin have been keeping eastern Ukraine in a state of war ever since 2014. Haska Shyyan tells the story of a young woman who wants something and won’t let circumstances get in her way. A story of everyday life in cities that have been changed forever. A story of a European citizen and her country.

‘War changes the meaning of words,’ explains the author of this dictionary of war. Each entry is a fragment of...

‘War changes the meaning of words,’ explains the author of this dictionary of war. Each entry is a fragment of a monologue ‘that I’ve heard or will hear one day in these difficult times’. Ostap Slyvynsky initially published these fragments online, and there are now print editions in Ukrainian, German, Polish, Romanian, Czech and Georgian.

On 16 April 1986, two boys and two girls are born in a maternity ward in Donetsk. Heinrich Fink, a...

On 16 April 1986, two boys and two girls are born in a maternity ward in Donetsk. Heinrich Fink, a Ukrainian communist with German roots, wants to name one of the boys – who is likewise of German descent – Ernst Thälmann. Partly in tribute to the former leader of the German Communist Party, but mainly to spare the boy from Fink’s fate of constantly being called a Nazi. The boy’s parents are promised a flat, a car and a carpet. The local press is informed. But the way things pan out is more complicated than anyone expects.

A voyage of discovery through contemporary Ukrainian literature. Over 40 sharply written reviews by the critic Tetjana Trofymenko chart the...

A voyage of discovery through contemporary Ukrainian literature. Over 40 sharply written reviews by the critic Tetjana Trofymenko chart the varied literary output of Ukraine between 2007 and 2017. She also takes a humorous look at the Ukrainian book market in all its diversity, documenting both the highs and the lows.

This book is a chronicle of ongoing events, the testimony of a man who enters into a new reality while...

This book is a chronicle of ongoing events, the testimony of a man who enters into a new reality while writing and who resists the destruction of everything around him. Not a solitary observer, but an active civilian in a society which has learned, over the past eight years, what it means to be strong together.