Wladimir Kaminer
Wladimir Kaminer (b. 1967 in Moscow) has been living in Berlin since 1990. The writer and columnist gained international renown with his short story collections Militärmusik (Military Music) and Russendisko (Russian Disco).
Updated: 3 January 2011
Thilo Sarrazin's controversial book on the dumbing down of Germany has ignited the debate on immigration. Russian emigré writer Wladimir Kaminer now joins the fray to warn against the dangerous habit of dividing society up into the strong and weak, productive and non-productive. Like it or not, he says, we stand or fall together.