Acting dramaturge Nadja Hess will read from "Mama Odessa" by Maxim Biller on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at 7 pm.
The world of the Russian-Jewish family from Hamburg is full of secrets, betrayal and literature. With impressive ease, Maxim Biller spans an arc from Odessa during the Second World War through the late Stalinist period to the present day. Despite all the adversity, a beautiful, bright light constantly shines through the lines of this often deeply sad, extraordinary book.
"Mama Odessa" is a literary masterpiece of the greatest precision and poetic power, the like of which is rarely achieved in German, and a book that Nadja Hess came across by chance in her local library; and read with growing enthusiasm.
