Halyna Kruk (Lviv, Ukraine): Words in a State of Emergency? On Writing During and Against War

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 made waves and was published in TIME, among others. 
As a Ukrainian lyricist, Halyna Kruk perceives the current war in her country as a radical rupture, 
a confrontation that is life-threatening, and at the same time as an emergency situation in which silence is not an option. 
She finds a new voice to describe the unspeakable.

15. October 2025 | 19:00
Cajeth House Museum | Haspelgasse 12