The memory of the daughters – reading with Irene Langemann

The Daughters’ Memory is the captivating chronicle of a German family trying to put down roots in crisis-ridden Russia. Irene Langemann climbs the tendrils of the family tree with virtuosity, following wild ramifications and creating a tightly woven web of past and future. A deeply moving novel about the search for identity in a foreign country, about the many facets of loneliness and the ever-new strength needed to overcome it.

Irene Langemann, born in Issilkul (Siberia) in 1959, grew up bilingually in a German family. She went to Moscow at the age of 17, studied acting and German language and literature and worked as an author, actress and presenter. She emigrated to Germany in 1990. Since then she has lived in Koln and works as an author and director for film and television. Her documentary films have won numerous international awards.

The event will be moderated by Edwin Warkentin, cultural advisor for Russian-Germans at the Museum of Russian-German Cultural History.

The event is a cooperation with the vhs Landkreis Konstanz.

NZZ book review:

“As a rule, their compatriots know little about the history of the approximately 2.5 million Russian-Germans living in Germany today. “The Daughters’ Memory”, a multi-layered and many-voiced novel, could change that.”

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Author of the event photo: Andrzej Walkusz/VHS Landkreis Konstanz e. V.