The term "Ukrainomania" does not require translation as it is a proper noun. It refers to a fascination or intense interest in Ukraine. If you need further context or a specific translation for a different usage, please provide more details!

In the mid-1920s, Joseph Roth visited his old homeland: Lviv, then known as Lemberg, and the surrounding Galician countryside, located in present-day Ukraine. A few years earlier, the writer and reporter, born in 1894 in the predominantly Jewish town of Brody, had written in a Berlin newspaper: "Sometimes a nation becomes modern. Now it is the Ukrainians." Just over a hundred years later, the Volkstheater is following in Joseph Roth's footsteps to Lviv, where it will present an international co-production, a revue against war, gloom, and despair, just as it does in Vienna.

"Interestingly, the phenomenon is that a nation, as soon as it loses its independence, begins to dominate in operettas and variety shows," Roth continues, coining the term "Ukrainomania" in this text. His words convey more than just the sarcastic wit of an excellent feuilletonist, who would soon become a celebrated chronicler of a world and existence caught between war and false peace with bestsellers like "The Spider's Web," "Hotel Savoy," "Radetzky March," and "Job."

But who was Roth, born in 1894, really? Even on May 30, 1939, when he was buried in Parisian exile, there was disagreement at his grave about whether to honor a Jew or a Christian, a monarchist or a socialist, a misanthrope, a great realist, or just an alcoholic. UKRAINOMANIA – this will be the revue of his life, a pandemonium populated with survivors, "hotel patriots," and other figures from Joseph Roth's work. A dialogue balancing between gallows humor and sorrow, between ensembles from Lviv and Vienna.

The production UKRAINOMANIA by Jan-Christoph Gockel is a collaboration between the Volkstheater Vienna and the National Theater Maria Zankovetska, Lviv, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and peaches&rooster.