"First-degree half-breeds" - this is what children with one Jewish parent were called under the Nuremberg Race Laws. Ernst Grube was one of them. His family was in a constant struggle for survival during the Nazi regime. In early 1945, he was deported as a boy on one of the last transports to Theresienstadt and finally liberated by the Red Army.

After the war, Ernst Grube became involved in the communist movement in West Germany. In the 1950s, he was convicted and imprisoned for his political activities. Before the Federal Court of Justice, Ernst Grube faces the judge Kurt Weber, once First Public Prosecutor under the Nazis. He is a representative of a judiciary whose anti-communism led to disproportionate sentences in the still young Federal Republic. The lives of the two are contrasted in a virtuoso manner.

"Zeit heilt keine Wunden" (Avant Verlag, 2024), written by illustrator and author Hannah Brinkmann, is a tribute to Ernst Grube, whose life shows that there are wounds that do not heal. They remind us that the past is part of our present.

Hannah Brinkmann studied graphic storytelling in Hamburg, Tel Aviv and Angouleme. her first graphic novel "Gegen mein Gewissen" was published in 2017, for which she received the first Dortmund Comic Prize in 2025. in 2024, she was one of the initiators and contributors to the project "Wie geht es Dir? Cartoonists against anti-Semitism, hatred and racism".

Admission: 18:45
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Due to generous funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight against Anti-Semitism, we are able to offer this event free of charge. Nevertheless, please book a free ticket using the link below.

The reading is part of the educational project "Max Liebermann and Jewish Life in Berlin".