„Auf Deutsch kann ich mich nicht belügen“ Schreiben in einer fremden Sprache: Katja Petrowskaja und Tanja Maljartschuk
“I can’t fool myself in German”. Writing in a Foreign Language: Katja Petrowskaja and Tanja Maljartschuk

Summary/Abstract: Katja Petrowskaja, born in Kiev in 1970, won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2013 with an excerpt from her book Vielleicht Esther. Five years later, it is again a young woman from Ukraine, Tanja Maljartschuk, born in 1983 in Ivano-Frankivsk, who wins the prestigious prize with the text Frösche im Meer. The two writers also have in common their late learning of the German language. “My German remained somehow inaccessible and saved me from routine” (Petrowskaja). “I can fool myself in Ukrainian” (Maljartschuk). Why two Ukrainian women made the choice to write in a foreign language and how their attempts have influenced their literary work is discussed in the article.

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