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Bestselling author Stephan Orth (Couchsurfing in Iran) has been intensely witnessing the war of Russia against Ukraine from the very beginning. His special bond with the country is through his Ukrainian girlfriend Yulia. How are the people who stayed doing? What does their everyday life look like, and what gives them hope? And what does all this have to do with us? With these questions, he travels for several months through the war-torn country. He stays with locals, listens to their stories, is impressed by their courage and will to live - and even helps with the rebuilding.
In the multimedia reading of his new book Couchsurfing in Ukraine, Stephan will tell about the people he met along the way. There is the lawyer Polina, who risks her life daily on medical evacuation trips from Zaporizhzhia. There is Vladimir from Dnipro, who wrote a song that he believes could bring immediate peace if enough people hear it. There is 85-year-old Iryna from Lyman, who has been living in her own basement for 18 months because her apartment was destroyed, yet she has not lost her positive outlook on life.
A moving report that gives us a perspective that goes far beyond the war.
Stephan Orth, born in 1979, studied English, economics, psychology, and journalism. From 2008 to 2016, he worked as an editor in the travel section of SPIEGEL ONLINE before becoming self-employed as an author. Orth has received the Columbus Prize multiple times for his reports.
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