Yulia Marfutova: A chance is a bird no bigger than a sparrow – global 2025
Description
The late eighties, that's in the last millennium. The late eighties, that's right now. Marina dreams of turning her back on the Soviet Union, of seizing the chance for a different life, however small. She knows: a chance is like a bird, no bigger than a sparrow, that doesn't sit still waiting to be caught. Years later and countless miles away, Marina's daughters try to imagine their mother as a young woman. What was her life like before she became a mother? What was her relationship with her grandmother like, not just in terms of numbers, but also in terms of interpreting the future? Little by little, Marina's daughters piece together their family's story. A story populated by ghosts, a story that shows how time passes: without ever truly being over.
Yulia Marfutova, born in Moscow in 1988, studied German literature and history in Berlin and received her doctorate in Münster. For her literary work, she has received, among other awards, grants from the Berlin Senate and the German Literature Fund, as well as the GWK Advancement Award for Literature. She was a fellow of the Brecht House and the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, the Berlin Festival's master class, and the Literary Colloquium Berlin. Her first novel, *The Sky a Hundred Years Ago*, was nominated for the German Book Prize and won the Buddenbrook House Debut Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Advancement Award. Yulia Marfutova lives in Boston.
Cooperation: globale° – Festival for cross-border literature – Bremen.
Where and when
Tue, 28.10.2025 from 18:00Free event