Travel Prologue with Felicitas Hoppe | SF

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“3668 IlfPetrow” is the name of a mysterious minor planet, discovered by Soviet astronomer Ljudmila Georgijewna Karatschkina and named after the writer duo Ilja Ilf and Jewgeni Petrow, who traveled to America on behalf of the Russian newspaper Prawda for four months in the 1930s, at the height of the Stalinist terror and the Great Depression. Under the title “Das eingeschossige Amerika” (literally, One-Storied America; translated as Little Golden America), the two satirists’ travelogue is an independent minded, fascinating combination of words and pictures that reflects the tension between the USSR and the USA during the emergence of fascism in Europe.
Eighty years later, their steps are recounted by writer Felicitas Hoppe—together with visual artists Alexej Meschtschanow and Jana Müller, whom she met at the Villa Aurora.

“Das eingeschossige Amerika”, published in German in 2011, by the Andere Bibliothek, with a foreword by Hoppe, shows the Russian duo’s original route and the traveling artists’ reexamination of the East-West relationship—now in light of current political developments.

Readings from: Felicitas Hoppe, Alexej Meschtschanow,Jana Müller and Professor Dr. Ulrike Rainer.

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