May 8, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and Germany's liberation from National Socialism.
In a musical reading, Roman Knižka and the OPUS 45 wind quintet take us back to the post-war period of 1945-1949 in their new program. Be there on 9 May at 7 pm!
"That a good Germany may flourish..." uses literary texts, reports and contemporary testimonies to tell of a country between apocalypse and awakening, of the arrival of the victors, of the Germans' confrontation with the atrocities of the Nazi regime, of the fate of Jewish concentration camp survivors who wandered through the land of the perpetrators as "displaced persons" after liberation, Political caesuras such as the Potsdam Conference, the Nuremberg Trials, the currency reform or the Berlin Blockade are also addressed, as is the often questionable practice of denazification procedures in everyday life.
But the program also deals with cultural awakenings and new beginnings. Whether or how one should still write after the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship and the catastrophe of the Second World War was hotly debated by writers of the time. Roman Knižka recites from works of post-war literature by Wolfgang Borchert, Bertolt Brecht and Nelly Sachs.
Advance booking and box office: €15 regular/€12 reduced
Advance ticket sales during opening hours at the Salmen. Reservations can be made at salmen@offenburg.de or by telephone on 0781 82-2701. Please note that reserved tickets must be collected at least 30 minutes before the start of the event, after which they will go on sale.
This event is part of the series "Between War and Peace. 1945-2025. 80 years since the end of the war"
In a musical reading, Roman Knižka and the OPUS 45 wind quintet take us back to the post-war period of 1945-1949 in their new program. Be there on 9 May at 7 pm!
"That a good Germany may flourish..." uses literary texts, reports and contemporary testimonies to tell of a country between apocalypse and awakening, of the arrival of the victors, of the Germans' confrontation with the atrocities of the Nazi regime, of the fate of Jewish concentration camp survivors who wandered through the land of the perpetrators as "displaced persons" after liberation, Political caesuras such as the Potsdam Conference, the Nuremberg Trials, the currency reform or the Berlin Blockade are also addressed, as is the often questionable practice of denazification procedures in everyday life.
But the program also deals with cultural awakenings and new beginnings. Whether or how one should still write after the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship and the catastrophe of the Second World War was hotly debated by writers of the time. Roman Knižka recites from works of post-war literature by Wolfgang Borchert, Bertolt Brecht and Nelly Sachs.
Advance booking and box office: €15 regular/€12 reduced
Advance ticket sales during opening hours at the Salmen. Reservations can be made at salmen@offenburg.de or by telephone on 0781 82-2701. Please note that reserved tickets must be collected at least 30 minutes before the start of the event, after which they will go on sale.
This event is part of the series "Between War and Peace. 1945-2025. 80 years since the end of the war"
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