{"id":187407,"date":"2025-10-03T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187407\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:43:10","slug":"serhiy-zhadans-play-feuerpause-released-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187407\/","title":{"rendered":"Serhiy Zhadan\u2019s play \u2018Feuerpause\u2019 released in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                            \u201cFeuerpause\u201d (Cease-Fire), a play by Ukrainian poet, author, and soldier Serhiy Zhadan, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suhrkamp.de\/rights\/book\/serhij-zhadan-cease-fire-fr-9783518432648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was published<\/a> on Sept. 29, 2025 by German publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag. The book was initially released in Ukraine by Meridian Chernowitz in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeath brings everyone together: while their deceased mother is lying upstairs in the bedroom, in the kitchen, two brothers see each other for the first time in a long time. Anton, the older of the two, has headed off in search of greener pastures. Tolik, the younger brother, has stayed behind, despite the smouldering war and the increasingly precarious conditions. But now the bridge has been blown up, the post office destroyed, the fields set ablaze, the water supply cut off. The heat builds. There is a knock at the door, Aunt Shura walks in, accompanied by two women here to tidy up and wash the body. Over and over, there are knocks at the door, more people from the village come in, the house of the dead woman is filled with life, it becomes at once refuge and trap. They are all suspicious of one another, have spied on each other and betrayed one another. How do you start a conversation when language has been broken and your ability to understand one another has been lost, disappearing somewhere in the time before the war?\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suhrkamp.de\/rights\/book\/serhij-zhadan-cease-fire-fr-9783518432648\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">annotation<\/a> reads.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-203636 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Khlibne-scaled-1-e1759328561404.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Ukrainian edition book cover<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-203638 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cease-fire_9783518432648_cover.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"590\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe play is set in the summer of 2014 in the Donbas, where Ukraine is being attacked by armed troops. In laconic language and with a great deal of situational comedy, Zhadan creates an atmospherically dense scene, in which his figures can no longer avoid each other. Forming a forced community riven by hostility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chytomo.com\/en\/libretto-by-serhiy-zhadan-about-vasyl-vyshyvany-raising-funds-for-khartiia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Libretto by Serhiy Zhadan about Vasyl Vyshyvany raising funds for Khartiia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Main image: UkrInform<\/p>\n<p>Copy editing: Joy Tataryn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFeuerpause\u201d (Cease-Fire), a play by Ukrainian poet, author, and soldier Serhiy Zhadan, \u00a0was published on Sept. 29, 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134],"class_list":["post-187407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}