Tag: Ukrainian diary
Visiting Oxana Matiychuk: Help. In spite of everything
While the world looks to Gaza, internally displaced people in Ukraine continue to suffer. The author of the “Ukrainian Diary” helps in Chernivtsi with a VW bus for which she…
Ukrainian diary: Front deployment instead of poetry reading
The young poet Yan was actually supposed to travel to Germany, but then he gets drafted while going to the authorities. source site
Ukrainian diary: "Lord it’s time…"
Our author is testing a self-built children’s ropeway in Bukovina. With a view of the early autumn landscape, she prefers to think of Rilke than Trakl’s war poems. Notes from…
Ukrainian diary: Nasty scam – culture
Sometimes stories happen that seem made up. These are fateful decrees, says my friend O. from the Zaporizhia region. She asks if I can come over for lunch during the…
Ukrainian diary: And then Dalí of all people
Our author feels pity and disgust when she sees a video from occupied Vasylivka and is amused by one detail. Notes from Ukraine. source site
Ukrainian diary: a few pans would be nice – culture
For displaced people who lost everything in the war, the most everyday things become meaningful. Our author tries to help them. Notes from Ukraine. An acquaintance of Caritas Chernivtsi referred…
Ukrainian Diary: After the Flood – Culture
The past two weeks have been marked by the deluge after the dam blast in Nowa Kachowka. The messages and images that reach you are not for the faint of…
Ukrainian diary: And now the blown dam – culture
I know this bloodlust from the first days of the war, when nobody knew what was coming and the tension remained unabated for days. Now it’s back as I read…
Ukrainian diary: Something is growing again – culture
We are in Chernivtsi with Rebecca Harms. A politician who doesn’t need to be explained about Ukraine. For Harms, Ukraine is not an abstract country somewhere in between, in the…
Ukrainian Diary: Visiting Fairies – Culture
Our “volunteer work”, as it is called in Ukrainian, does not require highly intellectual academic discussions. Their language is concrete and pragmatic and ranges from the designations of various relief…