Events organised by the International Stefan Heym Society e. V.
"Farewell and Arrival" on 18 November, 4 pm at the Stefan-Hym-Forum, TIETZ and 80 years of "Hostages" on 22 November, 7 pm at the University Library
The International Stefan Heym Society invites you to two events in November:
Friday, 18 November, 4 pm
Guided tour of Stefan and Inge Heym's working library, followed by the film "Farewell and Arrival"
Venue: Stefan Heym Forum, TIETZ (3rd floor), Moritzstraße 20
Admission: 3 euros (up to 18 years free of charge)
The film "Farewell and Arrival" documents the preparations for the transfer of the library from Heym's study in Berlin-Grünau to the Stefan Heym Forum in his native city of Chemnitz. Supplemented by numerous archive recordings from contemporary appearances and interviews with Stefan Heym, filmmaker Beate Kunath has succeeded in creating a sensitive double portrait that offers surprising new insights into Heym's life and literary work.
Tuesday, 22 November, 7 pm,
80 years of "Hostages": Anglo-Germanic perspectives on Stefan Heym's debut novel
Lecture with Prof Dr Cecile Sandten and Prof Dr Bernadette Malinowski
Venue: Alte Aktienspinnerei University Library, Straße der Nationen 33
Admission: free of charge
When Stefan Heym's first novel "Hostages" was published in New York in autumn 1942, the book immediately became a bestseller. Reason enough to take a fresh look at the work, which was written in English and later translated into German by the author with considerable changes as "Der Fall Glasenapp", about the resistance against the Nazis in occupied Czechoslovakia.
Taking into account the context in which the novel was written - Heym had been in exile in America since 1935 - the lecture will focus on the influences of the American narrative tradition on the novel, looking at the English and German versions from a comparative perspective.