Heinrich Mann, Hannah Arendt, Franz Werfel, Walter Benjamin and Lion Feuchtwanger were all refugees. In the summer of 1940, many renowned German writers and intellectuals fled for the second time. In 1933 they had left Nazi Germany. After the Wehrmacht invaded France, they had to flee again - under remarkable circumstances. Writer Uwe Wittstock tells their story in his acclaimed book Die große Flucht der Literatur, from which he will also read extracts.
PROGRAMME
Welcome Adress
Dr Gundula Bavendamm, director Documentation Centre Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation
Katharina Thote, representative of UNHCR Germany
Discussion and reading, with Uwe Wittstock
Interlocutor: Chris Melzer, press officer for UNHCR Germany
Please stay for wine and nibbles after the reading.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Doors open: 6.30 p.m.
Language: German
FREE ADMISSION
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An event organised in cooperation with UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency.
Languages: German
- 9. July 2025 19:00 - 20:30
Stresemannstraße 90,
10963 Berlin
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