28.10. Eröffnung mit Uwe Wittstock, 18.00 Uhr
Greeting
- Dr. Andreas Bovenschulte (Mayor of Bremen / Senator for Culture)
- Libuše Černá (globale e.V.)
- Cornelius Neumann-Redlin (Unternehmerverbände im Lande Bremen e.V.)
NOTE: Each participant must register online at with their contact details to attend the opening. Please submit your registration data by October 15 online at: https://bit.ly/globale2024
In cooperation with Senatskanzlei, Unternehmerverbände im Lande Bremen e.V. and DJV Bremen.
UWE WITTSTOCK IN CONVERSATION WITH RONYA OTHMANN
MARSEILLE 1940 – The great escape of literature
1940: The most dramatic year in German literary history. Hitler’s Wehrmacht has defeated France
. In Nice, Heinrich Mann listens to the news on Radio London during the bomb alert. Anna Seghers flees Paris on foot with her children Lion Feuchtwanger is imprisoned in a French internment camp while the SS units close in.
They all end up in Marseille, from where they seek a way to freedom. It was here that Walter Benjamin delivered his last essay to Hannah Arendt before setting off on his escape across the Pyrenees. This is where the paths of numerous German and Austrian writers, intellectuals and artists cross.
And in Marseille, Varian Fry and his comrades-in-arms risk life and limb to smuggle the persecuted out of the country. Uwe Wittstock tells the story of unbelievable courage and utter despair, of defiant hope and humanity in dark times in a densely scenic and sensitive manner.
In cooperation with the German Journalists Association.
