All Eyes on Belarus
Solidarity with Maria Kalesnikava
Monday, November 3, 2025
STUTTGART
9:00 p.m.
Theater Rampe
Rakete
Filderstrasse 47
70180 Stuttgart
Free admission
Maria Kalesnikava, founder of the Stuttgart cultural association INTERAKT, is imprisoned as a political prisoner in Belarus. The evening will be organized by her companions in Stuttgart and will include a conversation with Olga Bubich, a Belarusian essayist currently living in exile in Berlin. She will talk about common myths about Belarus that she encounters in Germany:
How much do we know and how much do we not know about our closest Eastern European neighbor? How do we imagine its history, its linguistic and political situation? To what extent do we rely on memories of the Soviet past and fragmentary media reports to form a picture of who the Belarusians are? Olga shares her experiences and impressions and presents facts and statistics from Belarus' past and present.
Olga Bubich (Belarus/Germany) is an essayist focusing on research into collective memory and Europe's traumatic past, a visual artist with two published photo books, and a lecturer with over 15 years of teaching experience.
With contributions from:
Yauhenia Dougaya
Nikola Lutz
Natasha López
Viktoriia Vitrenko
