On November 24, 2025, the literature and art project Eine Brücke aus Papier / Paper Bridge is coming to Regensburg at the invitation of “Denkraum Ukraine” / “Think Space Ukraine” for a dialogue with Ukrainian and German writers. 

Even in the fourth year of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, traveling to and from Ukraine is fraught with complications, dangers, and uncertainties. This makes it even more remarkable that Ukrainian writers are undertaking this journey to Regensburg to talk about the situation and present their new texts. 

Writers Yuri Durkot, Bohdan Kolomijtschuk, and Oleksandr Irwanez are coming to Regensburg from the cities of Lviv and Rivne. All three have experienced the war in very different ways. 

The writer Natalka Sniadanko from Lviv, who fled the war with her children in 2022, first to Marbach and then to Leipzig, will reflect the perspective of a refugee author in Regensburg. 

Conversely, Munich-based writer Dagmar Leupold traveled to Ukraine in 2023 with the Paper Bridge to the city of Uzhhorod. In her recently published poetry collection “Small Talk,” from which Dagmar Leupold will read in Regensburg, she also responds to the war in our present day. 

Halyna Kotowski from Lviv will accompany the event as an interpreter.

PROGRAM

Daily program

Kulturraum VOR DER GRIEB , Vor der Grieb 5 93047, Regensburg

11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Encounter

with

Yuri Durkot

Bohdan Kolomijtschuk

Natalka Sniadanko

Oleksandr Irwanez

and

Dagmar Leupold

in conversations and texts (German & Ukrainian)

Moderators: Alexander Kratochvil and Verena Nolte

Interpreter: Halyna Kotowski

Evening program

Evangelisches Bildungswerk, Am Ölberg 2, 93047 Regensburg

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Bilingual reading evening with the authors (German & Ukrainian)

Oleksandr Irwanez: Hexenhimmel Berlin, edition fotoTAPETA, Berlin, 2025

Bohdan Kolomijtschuk: Neue Essays

Juri Durkot: Kriegstagebuch 

Natalka Sniadanko: Frauen mit leichtem Gepäck

Dagmar Leupold: Small Talk. Gedichte, Jung und Jung Verlag Salzburg, Wien, 2025

Moderation: Alexander Kratochvil und Verena Nolte 

Dolmetscherin: Halyna Kotowski 

IMPRINT

Responsible: Mirja Lecke, Kristina Senft, Olha Martyniuk 

Curators: Verena Nolte, Alexander Kratochvil

Translation into Ukrainian: Anna Khomutkova

Press and public relations: Anna Khomutkova

 Photos: Anna Khomutkova

Project partners: Eine Brücke aus Papier / Paper Bridge, „Denkraum Ukraine“ / „Think Space Ukraine“, University of Regensburg, Kulturraum VOR DER GRIEB, Evangelisches Bildungswerk, Regensburg

Sponsor: DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) through funds from the Federal Foreign Office (AA)