Events of the International Stefan Heym Society in September 2021
Tuesday, 21 September, 7 p.m.
Scenic reading - 90 years of "Export Business":
"Ein solcher Lump gehört ausgeschaltet"
The young Stefan Heym targeted by the National Socialists in Chemnitz in 1931
Venue: TIETZ, Stefan Heym Forum, 3rd floor
Admission: free
Registration requested at www.stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de/biblab-c/veranstaltungen
Throughout his life, the writer Stefan Heym intervened in social debates and took a stand. He was repeatedly subjected to political persecution for this - whether as a left-wing youth towards the end of the Weimar Republic, as an author in the USA with sympathies for socialism or later as an oppositional spirit in the GDR. He first hit the headlines 90 years ago, in September 1931, in his home town of Chemnitz. National Socialists and right-wing bourgeois circles publicly mobilised against the 18-year-old, using anti-Semitic stereotypes in the process. This was triggered by a poem he wrote against the deployment of German military advisors abroad.
A search for clues using original contemporary documents.
Organiser: International Stefan Heym Society in cooperation with the Chemnitz City Library and the Kulturbetrieb.
Wednesday, 22 September, 7 p.m.
Stefan Heym: The new edition of his works
Venue: TIETZ, event hall
Admission: 6 euros, reduced 5 euros
To mark the 20th anniversary of Stefan Heym's death on 16 December 2001, the publishing house C. Bertelsmann is publishing a large digital edition of the writer and publicist's works this year. Until October, 28 e-books will be published, covering the author's diverse oeuvre in its entirety: from historical and contemporary novels and poems, stories, speeches and essays to fairy tales and an early work that is being published in German for the first time - the novel "Flammender Frieden" (Flaming Peace) from 1944. Participants present the edition in a moderated discussion, members of the acting ensemble of the Chemnitz Municipal Theatre read from Heym's texts.
A joint event organised by Verlag C. Bertelsmann, the International Stefan Heym Society and the Chemnitz Municipal Theatres.