Nikita Miller - Natural Born Miller

Programmtext - Es war einmal im Nirgendwo

"In the Soviet Union we were the Germans, in Germany we are the Russians" - his grandmother's words are burned into Nikita Miller's memory like a Soviet stamp on a deportation order. His grandmother would still swear today that a small glass of vodka with pepper solves every problem - from a runny nose to an identity crisis. But it's not quite that simple.

When Nikita was expelled from secondary school in the 90s for being allegedly "too Russian" for Schiller, he had no idea that this very torn-between-cultures feeling would one day become his greatest asset. Between German buttered bread and Russian pierogi, between the school yard and his grandmother's stories of being deported to Kazakhstan, he found his own way.

Now, as the world turns upside down once again, Miller digs deep into his family history and finds striking parallels with the present. He wants to know: what actually makes us who we are? The genes of our ancestors? The place where our ID was issued? Or perhaps the fact that we were the only ones in 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 eras and cultures. Because it's like a good borscht - the mix is what makes it interesting. And sometimes it takes an identity crisis to figure out who you really are.

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