Ulrich Matthes reads "She came from Mariupol" by Natascha Wodin

A warm summer evening in 2013. The writer Natascha Wodin is sitting in a flat by the Schaalsee lake in Mecklenburg and typing her Ukrainian mother's name into an internet search mask. She doesn't know much about Yevgenia Yakovlevna Ivashchenko, who committed suicide in West Germany in 1956, when Natascha was ten years old. When she unexpectedly receives an answer to her enquiry, she begins a search for the blurred traces of her relatives, which expands into a large, impressive, reminiscent panorama in which the closest family history and the German and Soviet atrocities of the 20th century are inescapably interwoven.

As part of the STAY UNITED event series, DT actor Ulrich Matthes will read from this extraordinary novel.