Events organised by the International Stefan Heym Society in April 2022
Sunday, 10 April, 10.30 a.m.
Guided tour of the Stefan Heym Forum to mark the 109th birthday of Stefan Heym
Venue: Stefan Heym Forum in the TIETZ, 3rd floor.
Admission: free
On the occasion of Stefan Heym's 109th birthday, there will be a guided tour of the Stefan Heym Forum. The Stefan Heym Forum with the working library of Stefan and Inge Heym was built on an area of around 240 square metres. In addition to original furniture and the author's desk with glasses, around 2500 of the couple's books are on display.
The rules of the current Corona Protection Ordinance and analogue regulations for indoor cultural events apply.
Sunday, 10 April, 4 pm
#Stop War 1931: An anti-war poem and its consequences.
The young Stefan Heym targeted by the National Socialists in Chemnitz.
Annotated reading
Venue: Lesecafe KaffeeSatz, Zietenstraße 40, 09130 Chemnitz.
Admission: free
90 years ago this spring, he was actually due to graduate from Chemnitz state grammar school. But a few months earlier, the young Stefan Heym had been forced to leave school and the city involuntarily because National Socialists and right-wing bourgeois circles publicly mobilised against the 18-year-old. A poem he had written against the deployment of German military advisors abroad had caused a veritable shitstorm for the young poet. Its consequences were to have a decisive influence on the course of his future life.
A search for traces of the actors and backgrounds using original contemporary documents - on the occasion of Stefan Heym's birthday on 10 April - with Prof. Kerstin Kreul, Henry Kreul and Michael Müller from the International Stefan Heym Society.
The rules of the current Corona Protection Ordinance and analogue regulations for indoor cultural events apply.