“My mother came from the densest darkness of the bloodthirsty 20th century”

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The German writer of Ukrainian origin Natascha Wodin looks back on her tragic family fate as her book “She came from Mariupol”, published in 2017, is enjoying new success.

From our correspondent in Germany, Pascale Hugues

” L’Does history repeat itself over and over again? Mariupol, destroyed by the Wehrmacht, is now the heap of ruins it was at the end of the Second World War. What else has to happen for us to finally understand? Sitting at her dark wooden desk in the dim light of her Berlin apartment, tucked away in a backyard in the Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood, 76-year-old Natascha Wodin struggles to comprehend the senseless violence that once again maimed the great port city on the Sea of ​​Azov, where his family is from. Strange for this successful author in Germany for her book She was from Mariupol (2020, Éditions Métailié), which retraces the story of his mother, of discovering, every day on television, the images of this city where…

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