Saturday, 6 June 2026
Palais Mamming, Merano
For more than four years, Vladimir Putin has been waging a brutal war against Ukraine, a war that shows no sign of ending. Russia’s attack on its neighboring country has brought violence and destruction upon a free people who have since been fighting for their rights and their very survival.
On 6 June, Literatur Lana dedicates an evening of literature and contemporary history to Ukraine at Palais Mamming:
with Sofia Andrukhovych, Olena Huseinova, Halyna...

From 23 to 27 March 2026, Munich hosted the international winter school “Ukrainian Migration in Europe and Globally in the 20th–21st Century”, an interdisciplinary academic platform that brought together scholars in linguistics, literary studies, history, and migration research.
It is a joint initiative of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Think Space Ukraine / Denkraum Ukraine(University of Regensburg), with the support of DAAD Ukraine and the German Federal Foreign Office, the Ukrainian Free University (Munich), the Bukovina Institute at the University...

Halyna Kruk (Lviv, Ukraine): Words in a State of Emergency? On Writing During and Against War. Reading and Conversation with Stefania Ptashnyk
Is it possible to write poems about the horrors of war? Is it even possible? "War is not a metaphor," says Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk.
She relentlessly responds to the Russian invasion with the spoken and written word - through publications, readings, various multimedia projects.
Her stirring speech at the Berlin Poetry Festival 2022 about the war in her homeland...