Books from Childhood

Lena Gorelik, born in St. Petersburg in 1981, came to Germany as a child with her Russian-Jewish parents in the early 1990s. After finishing school in Baden-Württemberg, she went to the German School of Journalism in Munich. Lena Gorelik has been writing novels and books for young people for 20 years. She has received numerous awards, including the Ernst Hoferichter Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. Her essays are important contributions to the burning issues of our time and current discourses. She intervenes, campaigns against anti-Semitism, racism and disdain for democracy and has become a sought-after discussion partner in public debates.

In the ‘Books from childhood’ series, Lena Gorelik talks to Niels Beintker about her formative childhood readings and her new start in Baden-Württemberg as a ‘ quota refugee’.

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With the kind support of the Hans Dieter Beck Foundation