# Read the Room mit Ilija Matusko: Jugo

Read the Room mit Ilija Matusko: Jugo at Roter Salon, Wednesday 28 October 2026, 20:00.

- Venue: Roter Salon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin
- With: Ilija Matusko
- Go to page: https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/reihen-und-projekte/read-the-room-buch-am-mittwoch/read-the-room-mit-ilija-matusko-jugo/

![Read the Room mit Ilija Matusko: Jugo](https://noky.io/images/2e4c06308d296051c2eeb1d6175f9716455bcc8b314a24babc783ac4ed2974e1-2000.webp)

"Read the Room mit Ilija Matusko: Jugo" is a book premiere at the Roter Salon of the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. It opens the Volksbühne's long-running literature series, which asks what stories contemporary authors tell. Ilija Matusko, a freelance author living in Berlin, reads from his novel debut "Jugo", a moving father-son portrait about family, the conflicts in the disintegrating Yugoslavia, and the feeling of never quite having arrived. It is a declaration of love to a father whose return to his old homeland was harder than his arrival in a foreign country.

## Dates

- Wednesday 28 October 20:00 — Roter Salon

Written by a model, sources: [volksbuehne-berlin.de](https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/reihen-und-projekte/read-the-room-buch-am-mittwoch/read-the-room-mit-ilija-matusko-jugo/)

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