Tuesday, 8 April, 7.30 pm
Writers in uniform: Stefan Heym's "Speeches to the enemy" 1944/45
Annotated reading
Venue: Stefan Heym Forum in the TIETZ, Moritzstraße 20
Admission: 3 euros (reduced 1.50 euros)
Shortly after the publication of his first successful novel "Hostages", written in English, Stefan Heym was called up to serve in the U.S. Army. With the advance of the American troops, he returned to Germany for the first time 80 years ago - twelve years after his escape from the Nazis. In the months leading up to this, he wrote a large number of manuscripts for radio programmes that were broadcast by the Americans from Luxembourg far into Germany. Their aim: to persuade German soldiers and the German civilian population to end the war as quickly as possible. Heym published these works decades later in the anthology "Speeches to the Enemy".
An event organised by the International Stefan Heym Society in cooperation with the Cultural Management of the City of Chemnitz.
Thursday, 10 April, 7.30 pm
Melange - Talk on Stefan Heym's "Obituary"
Venue: Stefan Heym Forum at TIETZ, Moritzstraße 20
Admission: 6 euros (reduced 3 euros)
Liv Heym (Paris, Berlin) and Ulrike Uhlig (Chemnitz) will be talking:
Why Liv Heym applied for a Stefan Heym Award, what the "Obituary" has to do with music and why you should come to the Spinnbau on 11 April.
An event organised by the International Stefan Heym Society in cooperation with the Cultural Management of the City of Chemnitz.
Friday, 11 April, 7.30 pm
Concert reading with Liv Heym
Venue: Spinnbau, Altchemnitzer Straße 27
Admission: 16 euros (sale via Ticket Service of the municipal theatres)
Stefan Heym's autobiography "Nachruf" and the music of his time are the focus of two concert readings with his granddaughter Liv Heym in spring and autumn in Chemnitz. Together with actor Christian Ruth and pianist and chansonnière Donia Berriri, the violinist will explore the question of the relevance of his biography for our understanding of ourselves and our times. "It is rare to have such a detailed autobiographical document at hand to answer this question as the 'Obituary', which the 75-year-old Heym published in 1988," says Liv Heym. Not only in his literary work, but also as a journalist, editor, member of the army and in political office, the writer rubbed up against the historical developments of his time and repeatedly put his contemporary witness to the test, for almost a century.
An event organised by the Chemnitz Municipal Theatres in cooperation with the International Stefan Heym Society.