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Wednesday, 8/5/2026
at 7:00 PM



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House numbers 36 and 37, here in Berlin they lived for years in direct neighborliness. As a child, the granddaughter played table tennis on the glass table in her grandparents' living room. As an adult, she eventually clears out their apartment, bringing silverware, pots, and music cassettes next door to her place. And she wants to preserve something else: Levitanus, the family name. The desire to reclaim the name accompanies her not only in everyday life but also takes her to Riga. She follows the words of her great-grandfather Salomon and finds a window in the former Riga ghetto that is closely linked to her family history – and she traces the movements of four generations, from Soviet Latvia in the 1970s to Germany.
Ricarda Messner tells in her debut novel about the place of her memories, repeatedly returning to life in two apartments, approaching losses and gaps, bridging today and yesterday. "Wo der Name wohnt" tenderly yet clearly revives a family and preserves their stories.

In cooperation with the festival "Theater unterm Himmelszelt"

Author's photo: © Diana Pfammatter / Suhrkamp Verlag
Graphics: Mathias Weber

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