Tuesday, 10 November, 7.00 pm
‘So that expatriation doesn’t become the norm here…’ – A guided reading
Venue: TIETZ, Stefan-Heym-Forum, 3rd floor, Moritzstraße 20
Admission: €3, concessions €1.50
16 November marks the 50th anniversary of the expatriation of the singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann from the GDR. It marked the beginning of an exodus of GDR artists. This provides an opportunity to reflect on that day and the days that followed, and above all to recall the protest by writers such as Stephan Hermlin and Stefan Heym, Christa Wolf and Franz Fühmann, Heiner Müller and Jurek Becker. The list of signatories to the protest note reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of GDR art. Many paid for their moral courage with sidelining; not everyone held out, whilst others left… In an annotated reading, the days following 16 November 1976 are brought to life.
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