Events organised by the International Stefan Heym Society in November
Tuesday, 7 November, 7 pm
Stefan Heym's Chemnitz relatives and the persecution of Jews during the Nazi era A search for clues
Venue: Stefan Heym Forum in the TIETZ, 3rd floor, Moritzstraße 20
Participation: free of charge
Emigrated, deceased, gassed - with these brief remarks, Stefan Heym outlines the later fate of his uncles and aunts, cousins and cousins in the Third Reich in his autobiography "Nachruf" (Obituary). To mark the 85th anniversary of the pogroms of November 1938, Petra Seedorff and Michael Müller trace the lives and fates of Heym's relatives who once lived in Chemnitz. Some of them managed to leave Germany in time, others perished in the Holocaust.
Saturday, 18 November 2023, 10.30 am,
Guided tour and film "Farewell and Arrival" (D 2021, 104 min)
Location: Stefan Heym Forum in Tietz, 3rd floor, Moritzstraße 20
After the guided tour through the Stefan Heym Forum with the working library of Stefan and Inge Heym, the documentary film "Abschied und Ankunft" by filmmaker Beate Kunath will be shown.
The film 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.