Fiction
January 2020
The Revenge of Baba Jaga
by Artur Rosenstern
Gisbert is 32 years old, Arminia fan, Slavic Studies student in his 20th semester at Bielefeld University. And he is in love: with the Ukrainian Julia, who is as beautiful as she is clever.But when he meets Julia's parents, he realises that eating pelmeni with her mother is no good. She thinks he's a loser, and under no circumstances does she want to entrust her daughter to him. First Gisbert has to prove to her that he is a good guy. She sends him to the Ukraine to get to know the customs, habits and above all the relatives there.Together with his friend Karl-Heinz, Gisbert sets off for Olexandriwka, a village in the Crimea. But his future mother-in-law, who is more reminiscent of the fairytale witch Baba Jaga, pulls the strings from Hanover to make his life as difficult as possible ...The programme features German-Ukrainian entanglements and faux pas with a dash of love, half guys, football, veil makers and the world's hottest pelmeni. From a time when Arminia was first class and Putin did not yet want the Crimea.
