"Being Happy!" Musical and poetic concert in Berlin 18 December 2025

"Being Happy" is a musical and poetic program for 1 hour with a guitarist based on poems by Marina Tsvetaeva and Mikael Tariverdiev.

The poems are chosen to inspire and remind us that even in difficult times a person can find joy and strength to live.

This is a light and inspiring concert, after which the audience leaves with a feeling of lightness and inner uplift.
 

Maryana Polteva is a theater and film actress, director, singer and reciter.

She was born on July 27, 1967 in Moscow. First appeared in the movies at the age of 5. A pupil of Oleg Tabakov, Moscow Art Theater Studio School.

Worked in the Theater under the direction of Oleg Tabakov, in the theater "Sovremennik", Chekhov Moscow Art Theater and "Lenkom". She hosted morning programs on the radio ("Good Morning"), starred in films and TV series. In the late 1990s, she was engaged in producing concert programs in the Moscow art club "Pilot", where the leading actors and musicians of Russia performed.

Maryana has played more than 20 roles in movies, including work in the films "Your Daughter Alexandra" (with Anton Tabakov, Igor Kvasha, Emmanuel Vitorgan), "Touch", "Chicken" (with Natalia Gundareva, Svetlana Kryuchkova), "Begin Again" (with Andrei Makarevich), "Obsession".

Since the late 1990s she has been living in Berlin. Her author's concerts are emotional journeys into the world of words, music and freedom, where lines and songs to poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova and other poets of the Silver Age are performed.

Nikolai Yavir - guitarist, co-author of the music for the concert, soloist of the band "Festival", for many years performed with Mark Aizikovich within the cultural programs of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.