Dmitry Kapitelman

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Dmitrij Kapitelman (* 1986 as Dmitrij Romashkan in Kiev ) is a German-speaking writer , journalist and musician .

Life

Dmitrij Kapitelman is the son of the Jewish-Ukrainian mathematician Leonid Kapitelman and his Moldovan- born wife Vera Romashkan, whose last name he received out of fear of anti-Semitic resentment. When he was eight he came to Germany with his family as a quota refugee . He studied political science and sociology at the University of Leipzig and graduated from the German School of Journalism in Munich . He lives as a freelance journalist in Berlin and makes music under the stage name Dheema (publication: Querulantenkram EP ).

Kapitelman wrote in the taz and the time , among others . His text Kapitelmans Kind about his father and his own identity between cultures, which he published in 2013 as an intern in the taz under the name Dmitrij Romashkan, drew the attention of a literary agent. Three years later, Carl Hanser Verlag published the autobiographical novel The Smile of My Invisible Father . It is about Kapitelman's life in Germany and a trip together with his father to Israel in search of a shared Jewish identity. Kapitelman called it a "book on emancipation". The novel was discussed in numerous German-language feature sections. Alex Rühle read a "gorgeous debut": "as brilliantly as politically astute formulated". Jens Jessen discovered a new “genre: father observation”, while Roman Bucheli discovered “autobiographical folklore”. Kapitelman received the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize at the Harbor Front Literature Festival in 2016 for his debut novel .

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  1. ↑ a b Dmitrij Romashkan: Kapitelmans Kind . In: the daily newspaper of June 7, 2013.
  2. ↑ Dmitrij Kapitelman at Carl Hanser Verlag .
  3. ↑ Anja Maier : Home is a worn word . In: the daily newspaper of October 20, 2016.
  4. ↑ Review notes on The Smile of My Invisible Father at perlentaucher.de
  5. ↑ Alex Rühle : The Identity Hangover . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 6, 2016.
  6. ↑ Jens Jessen : The kippah looks good on him . In: Die Zeit of December 8, 2016.
  7. ^ Roman Bucheli: Autobiographical Folklore . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from November 8, 2016.
  8. ↑ Dmitrij Kapitelman receives the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize . In: Die Welt from September 21, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Kapitelman, Dmitrij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romashkan, Dmitrij (maiden name); Dheema (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-speaking writer, journalist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev