Czernowitzers... The renowned German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reported yesterday: “The Meridian Literature Festival [Czernowitz] is being relocated. It is coming to Ukrainian cities close to the front: Odessa, Mykolayiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya - cities where underground poetry takes on a whole new meaning as readings in air-raid shelters.”
https://www.bosch-stiftung.de/en/project/literature-forums-meridian “We need culture to know what we are actually fighting for,” says Evgenija Lopata, the director of the Meridian Literature Festival in Czernowitz. I last met Evgenija in September 2018: https://hauster.blogspot.com/2018/09/backup-meeting-friends-in-news-from.html A literature festival is still possible in Czernowitz - in the embattled areas in the south of the country, this would no longer be conceivable. Nevertheless, Evgenija and her team, are still active there and are trying to organize smaller cultural events, as for example, in Mykolaiv, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia at the beginning of November. Czernowitz stands for a cultural revitalization in Ukraine, despite all the threats of war. Our List which has been a little quiet lately can also use a kind of revitalization, despite all the political events, which we are looking at anxiously and not without worries. A very good friend wrote to me a few days ago: „I’ll focus on doing right rather than dwelling on what might happen.“ For my part, I will try to bring you news from Czernowitz during the upcoming cooler months of the year; in summer I will - hopefully - be going on a motorcycle ride again. Next year in Czernowitz...?! Edgar Hauster [MacBook] ******************************************************************************* This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject of Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. The opinions expressed in these posts are the opinions of the original poster only and not necessarily the opinions of the List Owner, the Webmaster or any other members or entities connected with this mailing list. The Czernowitz-L list has an associated web site at http://czernowitz.ehpes.com that includes a searchable archive of all messages posted to this list. Beginning in 2021, archived messages can be found at: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To send mail to the list, address it to <[email protected]>. To remove your address from this e-list follow the directions at https://it.cornell.edu/lyris/leave-e-lists-lyris To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
