Post-Soviet German-Language Fiction

The project is a monograph on post-Soviet German-language fiction. In the past decade, post-Soviet Jewish writers, poets, and artists living and working in Germany have been playing a crucial role in the ongoing debate about the various forms of migrant belonging in contemporary German culture. This book explores, among other topics, how these different cultural agents reflect and performatively de-stabilize the meaning of “Heimat,” a concept that is highly charged both in the German and Soviet contexts. In December 2020, she presented a subchapter of the book at a research colloquium of the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Potsdam under the heading “Drobyzkyj Jar: Räume des Holocaust in Jan Himmelfarbs Roman Sterndeutung.” In October 2020, she gave another related lecture at the Leo Baeck Institute in London entitled “’Your Heimat is our Nightmare’: Post-Soviet Poetic Interventions in German Culture.” The lecture will be published as an article.