Nino Haratischwili
Author Readings
Photo: G2 Baraniak
Language: German
Nino Haratischwili - author, reader
In cooperation with HAU Hebbel am Ufer
Every author — whoever they are — has a unique relationship with their own text. They understand it differently from how it might be heard or interpreted by an actor, a director, or any outside reader. In 2025, the Voices Berlin Festival has chosen a new format for its play readings: every piece will be performed by its author.
Nino Haratischwili "The Lack of Light"
A Georgian-born, Berlin-based writer, whose works are widely staged in the German-speaking world, will read a fragment from her recent novel "Lack of Light" — the story of four remarkable women bound by absolute friendship during their adolescence in post-Soviet Tbilisi, fighting for their right to a future and their right to love. "Lack of Light" is the story of a lost land and a lost generation; of a revolution that devours its children; of a friendship that defies death; of phantom pain, a battle with oneself and the world, a struggle with fate. It is also a homage to Georgia, to the city of Tbilisi, and to its people: a declaration of love across the ages.
Contributors
nino haratischwili
novelist, playwright
Nino Haratischwili is a Georgian-born, German, multiple award-winning novelist and dramatist, and one of the most important authors of contemporary German literature.
Haratischwili was born and raised in Tbilisi. To escape the political and social chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, she moved with her mother to Germany for two years in the early 1990s. Later, she returned to Germany to attend drama school in Hamburg. She became a German citizen in 2012. Her worldwide bestseller, the epic family saga "The Eighth Life (for Brilka)", has been translated into numerous languages and was nominated for the International Booker Prize. Her novel "The Cat and the General" was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2018.