Wladimir Kaminer is rightly regarded as a bridge builder between cultures.
With his humorous view of Germany, he explains what surrounds us.
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If you pick up a book by Wladimir Kaminer, you're bound to smile.
It is a satirical look at the sensitivities that surround us every day.
In his new volume, "How do I tell my mother", the short stories contain the involuntary comedy that one knows from the real satirist.
Vladimir Kaminer "How do I tell my mother": About the book
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Vladimir Kaminer "How do I tell my mother"
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Vladimir Kaminer's mother no longer understands the world.
Her grandchildren prefer vegan scrambled eggs to a decent meatball, they want to abolish the zoo they loved so much as a place of animal cruelty, and even grandma's eco-friendly electric fly swatter is criticized.
Long-awaited air travel is suddenly considered evil, and even the internet recipe for cucumber salad has lost its innocence.
It shows that a sneaky algorithm controls what information you get.
In the case of Wladimir Kaminer's mother, these are more cooking tips than calls for a climate strike.
And so grandma and grandchildren are increasingly living on different planets.
Wladimir Kaminer does his best to explain this new world to his mother and to convey it with humor and mutual understanding between the generations - from organic meat to gender stars.
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Wladimir Kaminer celebrated great international success with his debut novel "Russendisko", which continues to this day even after the film adaptation of the novel.
In his numerous works and the audio books that he speaks himself, he combines love and at the same time amazement at the peculiarities of everyday life in Germany.
All works by Vladimir Kaminer
Russian disco
Schönhauser Allee
Fresh gold boys
military music
The Journey to Trulala
everyday heroes
My German Jungle Book
I'm worried mom
karaoke
Totalitarian kitchen.
The Cookbook of Socialism
I am not from Berlin.
A guide for lazy tourists
My life in the allotment garden
Hello dad!
There was no sex in socialism.
Legends and misunderstandings of the last century
My Russian neighbors
Life is not yogurt.
Wladimir Kaminer & Kitty Kahane tell a story of Adam & Eve
My Caucasian mother-in-law
Greetings from Germany
Uncle Vanya is coming
This side of Eden
Cool parents live longer
Life is (not) an art
My mother, her cat and the vacuum cleaner.
A riot in 33 stories
Goodbye Moscow.
Reflections on Russia
Some things I know about my wife
Germany of all places: Stories from our new neighbors
The Crusaders: a journey in four chapters
declarations of love
Tolstoy's beard and Chekhov's shoes.
Forays into Russian Literature
Little Red Riding Hood smokes on the balcony... and other family stories
The Lost Summer.
Germany smokes on the balcony
The Wave Riders
How do I tell my mother
In his latest collection of stories, Vladimir Kaminer acts as a kind of "interpreter", as he revealed in a recent interview.
He doesn't explain the world to his 90-year-old mother, but conveys the issues that strike him here in Germany.
If Kaminer also takes up topics such as the climate crisis, he always does it with humor.
Not to belittle.
After all, you can't just sink into sadness all the time, said Kaminer in the ZDF Morgenmagazin.
Wladimir Kaminer "How do I tell my mother": My conclusion
It's a colorful bouquet of themes mixed with Kaminer's own ingenuity.
Humorously and with a wink, he directs me as a reader to the points that strike him and concern him.
A recommendation for everyone who is looking for something to smile with depth.
Vladimir Kaminer "How do I tell my mother"
The new world explained: from gender asterisks to organic seals
2022 Goldmann, ISBN-13 978-3-442-31679-3
Price: Hardcover €22, e-book €15.99, 208 pages (different format) – Order now (promotional link)
Vladimir Kaminer
Wladimir Kaminer was born in Moscow in 1967, where he trained as a sound engineer for theater and radio.
He has lived in Berlin since 1990.
He sees himself as a citizen of the world and says he is privately Russian, professionally a German writer.
He is also a journalist, writing articles for newspapers and magazines.
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