Abstract

This 2003 photo shows Russian author Wladimir Kaminer at the club “Kaffee Burger” on Berlin’s Torstraße. Twice a month, Kaminer serves as DJ, spinning Russian pop music at the club’s “Russian Disco.” In 2000, he published a collection of stories under the same name and quickly established himself as a shooting star within Berlin’s literary scene. Kaminer was born in Moscow in 1967 and trained as a sound engineer for theater and radio before studying dramaturgy at Moscow’s Theater Institute. In 1990, he arrived in East Berlin as an asylum-seeker and has lived in Germany ever since. His essays deal in ironic fashion with the experiences of new Jewish immigrants from Russia.

Writer Wladimir Kaminer at the “Russian Disco” (May 10, 2003)

  • Jochen Eckel

Source

Source: picture-alliance / dpa (c) ZB – Special