Vanessa Vu and Ahmad Katlesh present a performative reading from their acclaimed book Komm dahin wo es still ist. Using letters, family photos and videos, they explore their very different and yet intertwined migration biographies, talk about faded and missing memories, fears of contact and internal and external wars. An intimate, deeply touching story about the traces of flight, asylum and love across borders. (VV + AK)

Vanessa Vu is a journalist. She was born in Eggenfelden in 1991 and spent her childhood in a home for asylum seekers in Pfarrkirchen. She has worked as an editor at ZEIT ONLINE since 2017.

Ahmad Katlesh is a writer. He was born in Damascus in 1988 and studied mathematics there. In addition to numerous publications in Arabic, his first book in German was published in 2020, Das Gedächtnis der Finger.