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Dreamers: When the Writers Took Power

03/10/2019
60 min
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Speakers: , Rebecca Abrams

Munich, November 1918: in the final days of WWI, revolutionaries occupied official buildings and overthrew the monarchy. At the head of the newly declared Free State of Bavaria was journalist and theatre critic, Kurt Eisner. He was joined by the luminaries of German cultural history — Thomas Mann, Ernst Toller and Rainer Maria Rilke. Yet the idyll would not last: in February 1919, Eisner was assassinated and the dream shattered. But, while it survived, it was the writers, poets, playwrights and intellectuals who led the way, imagining new ideas of shaping the world.

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Volker Weidermann

Volker Weidermann, an award-winning writer and literary critic, is the cultural editor of Der Spiegel.
Rebecca Abrams

Rebecca Abrams is an author, teacher and journalist. Her books include Touching Distance, The Jewish Journey, When Parents Die and Three Shoes One Sock & No Hairbrush. She is a long-standing teacher of Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and a regular literary critic for the Financial Times.

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Dreamers: When the Writers Took Power

03/10/2019
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60 min

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Volker Weidermann

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Volker Weidermann, an award-winning writer and literary critic, is the cultural editor of Der Spiegel.

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Rebecca Abrams

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Rebecca Abrams is an author, teacher and journalist. Her books include Touching Distance, The Jewish Journey, When Parents Die and Three Shoes One Sock...