Wladimir Kaminer is a Russian-born German writer and disc jockey of Jewish origin. Kaminer was trained as an audio engineer for theatre and radio, then studied dramaturgy at the Moscow Institute of Theater. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, he immigrated to East Berlin in 1990 where he started his career as a German writer. He contributes regularly to various German newspapers and journals. His literary and journalistic work is exclusively in German. Moreover, he DJs at his ‘Russendisko’ in Berlin (Kaffee Burger) playing music by Russian bands.
Website: www.russendisko.de
