Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature

Heinrich Mann, Hannah Arendt, Franz Werfel, Walter Benjamin and Lion Feuchtwanger were all refugees. In the summer of 1940, many renowned German writers and intellectuals fled for the second time. In 1933 they had left Nazi Germany. After the Wehrmacht invaded France, they had to flee again - under remarkable circumstances. Writer Uwe Wittstock tells their story in his acclaimed book Die große Flucht der Literatur, from which he will also read extracts. This event is co-organised by the Documentation Centre and the UN Refugee Aid Agency UNHCR.
 

PROGRAMME

Welcome Adress

Dr Gundula Bavendamm, director Documentation Centre Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

Katharina Thote, representative of UNHCR Germany

Discussion and reading, with Uwe Wittstock
Interlocutor: Chris Melzer, press officer for UNHCR Germany

Please stay for wine and nibbles after the reading.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Doors open: 6.30 p.m.

Language: German

FREE ADMISSION

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An event organised in cooperation with UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the German Foundation for UN-Refugee Aid.