Tuesday, 13 May, 7 pm
Ahrenshoop memories of Stefan Heym 1964 - 2001
Contemporary witness evening with Ingrid Schreyer, Ahrenshoop
Venue: TIETZ, Stefan Heym Forum
Admission: 6 euros, reduced 3 euros
For decades, Stefan Heym had a close friendship with his fellow writer Wolfgang Schreyer (1927-2017), who lived in Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea. His wife Ingrid Schreyer recalls numerous encounters with Stefan Heym, cheerful moments on the Baltic Sea beach and intense discussions about the work and responsibility of literature in the GDR, the uprising of 17 June 1953 and the expatriation of Wolf Biermann in 1976. With humour and often in a conversational tone, she describes how she organised readings by opposition authors, how book censorship and Stasi surveillance made life and writing difficult - and how great literature was nevertheless created and published
An event organised by the International Stefan Heym Society in cooperation with the Cultural Management of the City of Chemnitz.
Saturday, 24 May, 2 p.m.
"Farewell and Arrival" (D 2021, 104 min)
Film and guided tour of the Stefan Heym Forum with Beate Kunath
Location: TIETZ, Stefan Heym Forum, 3rd floor
Admission: 3 euros, reduced 1.50 euros
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, director Beate Kunath has succeeded in creating a sensitive double portrait that offers surprising new insights into Heym's life and literary work.
An event organised by the International Stefan Heym Society in cooperation with the Cultural Management of the City of Chemnitz.