»Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen«

»And in the year 1933, my books were burned in Berlin, on the grand square next to the Staatsoper, by a certain Herr Goebbels with a bleak and solemn pomp. Twenty-four German writers, who were to be symbolically blotted out forever, he called out by name. I was the only one of the twenty-four who showed up to attend this theatrical impudence in person.« In these famous lines, Erich Kästner describes the book burning on today’s Bebelplatz, whose 90th anniversary will take place on May 10th of this year. Writers and actors read texts by the burned authors and discuss the threat of writing today.

Eine Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit dem Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels im Rahmen der Woche der Meinungsfreiheit vom 3. bis 10. Mai 2023