Sunday, 4/6/2025
at 4:00 PM



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Bestselling author Stephan Orth ("Couchsurfing in Iran") has intensively experienced the war of Russia in Ukraine from the very beginning. His Ukrainian girlfriend Yulia connects him with the country in a special way. How are the people who have stayed doing? What does their everyday life look like, what gives them hope? And what does all of 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 reconstruction.

In the live report about his new book "Couchsurfing in der Ukraine," Stephan Orth shares stories of the people he met along the way. There is lawyer Polina, who risks her life daily on medical evacuation trips from Zaporozhzhia. There is Vladimir from Dnipro, who wrote a song he believes could bring immediate peace if only enough people in Russia and Ukraine 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, and who despite her precarious situation has not lost her positive outlook on life.

The audience can look forward to a moving account that offers us a perspective that goes far beyond the war.

Stephan Orth, born in 1979, is a journalist and worked for nine years as an editor in the travel section of Spiegel Online before becoming self-employed as an author. His SPIEGEL bestsellers "Couchsurfing in Iran," "Couchsurfing in Russia" (awarded the ITB Book Award), and "Couchsurfing in China" were published by Piper/Malik. The volumes of the successful series have been translated into more than ten languages, and since February 2021, "Couchsurfing in Saudi Arabia" has been in bookstores.

Doors open at 3:30 PM

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