Because the author Dmitry Glukhovsky has openly spoken out against the war in Ukraine and Putin’s regime, he is wanted in Russia. Still, he doesn’t want to remain silent. A meeting in Berlin.
The novel that made him famous could not be set in Berlin. Because in “Metro 2033” the survivors of a nuclear war save themselves in the Moscow subway and build a new society there. In Berlin, however, nothing would be left of the subway in the event of a nuclear attack because it runs just below the surface here. In Eastern Europe, on the other hand, many of the Metro shafts are designed specifically to serve as bunkers in the event of war. Dmitry Glukhovsky thought that was a crazy idea even as a teenager. At the age of 15 he therefore began to write and to formulate this vision of the future. What happened if. Ten years later “Metro 2033” was finished, two years later a worldwide success. Sequels and a computer game followed. In 2007 it was still science fiction. Today, Glukhovsky says during a walk in Berlin, Ukrainian fans who fled from the Russian rocket attacks in the subways of Kiev and Kharkiv write to him: We live in your novel!