Panel: Ostwärts

Venue: ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Charlottenplatz 17, 70173 Stuttgart

Research project(s): Small/Minor Literature as World Literature

Panel with Zsófia Bán, Alhierd Bacharevič and Zaza Burchuladze at Literaturfestival Stuttgart »ÜBER LEBEN«, moderator: Zaal Andronikashvili

Zsófia Bán, Hungarian writer, essayist and literary and art critic, brings her latest book Aletheia lebt (2025). Aletheia was born in Budapest in 1924 and died during the pandemic in 2021. Her story spans four generations, focusing mainly on the women.

Alhierd Bacharevič is a Belarusian writer and translator of German literature. He was awarded the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding in 2025 for his novel Europas Hunde, translated by Thomas Weiler; the novel is banned in Belarus. He has been living in exile since the end of 2020, currently in Hamburg.

Zaza Burchuladze, born in 1973 in Tbilisi, Georgia, writes about political conformity, violence and brutality and deals with ideologies, religions and sexuality. He fled to Germany with his family in 2012. He now lives and works in Berlin. He has received several awards for his novels.

Literary scholar Zaal Andronikashvili is a research associate with the project Literature in Georgia. Between Small Literature and World Literature.