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»Never Again is Now!« Reading Texts Against Antisemitism

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»Against Silence. Against Antisemitism«: Reading on January 30th in Cologne

The NRW regional group of PEN Berlin invites you together with the Cologne Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation and the Literaturhaus: Tuesday, 30 January, 7 pm, Literaturhaus Köln, Großer Griechenmarkt 39.

Reading: Alida Bremer, Katinka Buddenkotte, Christoph Danne, Peter Jamin, Andrea Karimé, PeterLicht, Ulrich Peltzer, Monika Rinck, Kathrin Röggla, Bastian Schneider, Daniela Seel and Ute Wegmann.

This event is already fully booked. However, there will be another reading on 29 April.

Never Again Is Now: Reading on January 16th in Hamburg

»Anti-Semitism is not a Jewish problem, it is our problem«, wrote Jean-Paul Sartre in 1946. His insight applies all the more here and now. Non-Jewish Germans, regardless of their origin, cannot remain oblivious to the fact that anti-Semitic violence is once again increasing rapidly in Germany. No one must be left indifferent when Jews in Germany once again begin to anxiously ask themselves where hatred will lead. Where they cannot live safely and free from fear, soon no one will be able to live freely.
That’s why Kristine Bilkau, Isabel Bogdan, Simone Buchholz, Katharina Hagena, Gabriel Herlich, Viola Roggenkamp, Katrin Seddig and Jasmin Sohnemann will read texts against anti-semitism by Hannah Arendt, Heinrich Heine, Gabriele Tergit, Stefan Zweig e.a. Music: Nicolai von Schweder-Schreiner sings songs by Daliah Lavi, Yo La Tengo e.a. on January 16th at 7.30 p.m. at Atrium of the State and University Library (Entrance Grindelallee / corner Edmund-Siemers-Allee).

Never Again Is Now: Reading on January 19th in Francfort

»Antisemitism is not a Jewish problem, it is our problem«, wrote Jean-Paul Sartre in 1946. His insight applies all the more here and now. Non-Jewish Germans, regardless of their origin, cannot remain oblivious to the fact that antisemitic violence is once again increasing rapidly in Germany. No one must be left indifferent when Jews in Germany once again begin to anxiously ask themselves where hatred will lead. Where they cannot live safely and free from fear, soon no one will be able to live freely.

That’s why Stephan Anpalagan, Eva Demski, Özlem Dündar, Yannic Han Biao Federer, Arno Frank, Michel Friedman, Juan Guse, Kathrin Röggla and Anna Yeliz Schentke by will read texts against antisemitism by Jean Améry, Hannah Arendt, Heinrich Mann and others.

19 November 2023, 5 p.m. Mousonturm, Francfort
In cooperation with Hessisches Literaturforum Mousonturm e.V.

That’s why Seyran Ates, Ralf Bönt, Nora Bossong, Thea Dorn, Michel Friedman, Katja Lange-Müller, Marko Martin, Ulrich Matthes, Herta Müller and Düzen Tekkal will read texts against antisemitism by Jean Améry, Hannah Arendt, Heinrich Mann and others.

10 November 2023, 6 p.m. Deutsches Theater, Berlin