Katja Petrowskaja: Als wäre es vorbei

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How war changes our perception - Katja Petrowskaja in the taz Talk at the Leipzig Book Fair.

What does war do to our images, our vision and the people who experience or observe it? Between February 2022 and fall 2024, Katja Petrowskaja created a chronicle of the war in Ukraine with her photo columns in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

The taz Studio at the Leipzig Book Fair
Program overview
Where: Hall 5 | G500
Leipzig Book Fair

Registration is not required. As we have a very limited capacity on site, we kindly ask you to be at the venue early. The event will be streamed live on YouTube.
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Her story begins before the outbreak of war - in a Georgian landscape along the Great Military Road. Animals roam around, the threat of war is in the air. Then the cry: "My Kiev!" The war brutally penetrates reality, changing everyday life and our view of the world.

You see smiling faces in the photos and wonder whether these people are still alive today. A man stands in a hole in the street as if he is trying on death like a piece of clothing. A pale girl leans against an elderly woman: the picture tells of horror and unexpected miracles. War also makes the unimaginable conceivable and tangible. Miracles too.

As if it were over. Texts from the war - a taz Talk in the taz Studio at the Leipzig Book Fair with:

🐾 Katja Petrowskaja has lived in Berlin since 1999, also in Tbilisi. She studied literature in Tartu, Stanford and Moscow and works as a journalist for German and Russian-language media. Her literary debut "Vielleicht Esther" (2014) has been translated into over 30 languages and has received numerous awards. Her new book has been published by Suhrkamp Verlag.

🐾 Andreas Fanizadeh moderates this taz Talk. He is the taz's chief cultural policy correspondent and was head of the taz's culture department from October 2007 to August 2024.

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