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Literature
Poet and journalist Durs Grünbein will be presenting his novel "Der Komet" on May 3 and would like to discuss it with the audience.
His latest book focuses on a woman from a humble background. It is about the life of Dora W., who comes to Dresden from Silesia, becomes a mother at sixteen and, at twenty-five, witnesses the fall of the city in the bombing. She is given a short time there; these are her golden years, it seems, but then her perspective collapses and, like everyone else, she is overtaken by the war and with it the end of Dresden in a society poisoned by the pursuit of great power and racial mania.
With her story, the author traces an individual fate in the historical context before and after the invasion of National Socialism in every single life. What does the dictatorship do to people who are barely able to cope with its demands and struggle to make ends meet? The appearance of Halley's Comet in 1910, which fueled doomsday fantasies, takes on a symbolic meaning for the destruction of the Saxon metropolis in the firestorm of February 1945.
The example of Dora W. tells how history happens to those without history, ultimately as horror and too-late insight.
- Friday, May 3, 2024 19:00 - 21:00 clock
