Nikita Miller - "Natural Born Miller" | Berlin
Event by: d2mberlin GmbH, Admiralspalast Berlin
Location: Admiralspalast, Friedrichstraße 101, Berlin - Mitte
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In the Soviet Union we were the Germans, in Germany we are the Russians" - these words from his grandmother are burned into Nikita Miller's memory like a Soviet stamp on a deportation order. His grandmother would still swear today that you can solve all problems with a glass of vodka with pepper - from a cold to an identity crisis. But it's not quite that simple.
When Nikita was expelled from high school in the 90s because he was supposedly "to “Russian” for Schiller, he had no idea that it was precisely this conflict between cultures that would one day become his greatest treasure. Between German sandwiches and Russian pierogi, between the secondary school yard and the stories of his grandmother, who was deported to Kazakhstan, he found his own path.
Today, while the world is once again turned upside down, Miller digs deep into his family history and finds astonishing parallels to the present. He wants to know: What actually makes us who we are? The genes of our ancestors? The place where our ID card was issued? Or maybe the fact that we were the only ones in the class who knew how to pronounce “Dostoyevsky” correctly?
With the precision of a German master watchmaker and the soul of a Russian poet, Miller takes his audience on a journey through times and cultures. Because in the end it's like a good borscht - it's the mixture that makes it interesting. And sometimes it just takes an identity crisis to find out who you really are.
Tickets purchased for February 28, 2025 under the program name “Much New in the West” also remain valid for “Once Upon a Time in Nowhere”.
We ask for your understanding.
When Nikita was expelled from high school in the 90s because he was supposedly "to “Russian” for Schiller, he had no idea that it was precisely this conflict between cultures that would one day become his greatest treasure. Between German sandwiches and Russian pierogi, between the secondary school yard and the stories of his grandmother, who was deported to Kazakhstan, he found his own path.
Today, while the world is once again turned upside down, Miller digs deep into his family history and finds astonishing parallels to the present. He wants to know: What actually makes us who we are? The genes of our ancestors? The place where our ID card was issued? Or maybe the fact that we were the only ones in the class who knew how to pronounce “Dostoyevsky” correctly?
With the precision of a German master watchmaker and the soul of a Russian poet, Miller takes his audience on a journey through times and cultures. Because in the end it's like a good borscht - it's the mixture that makes it interesting. And sometimes it just takes an identity crisis to find out who you really are.
Tickets purchased for February 28, 2025 under the program name “Much New in the West” also remain valid for “Once Upon a Time in Nowhere”.
We ask for your understanding.