30^th Leukerbad International Literary Festival

Authors

Yevgeniy Breyger

Germany

Yevgeniy Breyger was born in 1989 to Jewish parents in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and came to Germany in 1999 as a quota refugee. He studied Creative Writing and Curatorial Studies in Hildesheim, Leipzig and Frankfurt. He now lives in Vienna and also works as a translator and editor. “The art of Yevgeniy Breyger lies in the physicality of his poetry and how it is conveyed through the linguistic registers he employs,” writes Die Zeit. Typical of Breyger’s texts is a dense, often experimental visual language that thematically intertwines personal experience with the political present – exemplified in Frieden ohne Krieg, published in 2023, which was enthusiastically received by critics and the public alike from Ukraine ahead of the Russian invasion.
Breygers’ narrative long poem hallo niemand takes readers on a whirlwind tour through Germany. The book is an Odyssey-like political satire that repeatedly veers into the grotesque, and at the same time a serious examination of the scars political and social reality leaves on body and mind. “Wildly fast-paced and carefree yet sad,” says Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

hallo niemand: Roadtrip in Versen. Suhrkamp Verlag 2026
Frieden ohne Krieg. Poems. kookbooks 2023
Kryptomagie. Poems. mikrotext 2022

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