Der Freiheitskampf der Ukraine und deutsche Befindlichkeiten

In the organizer's words:

On the morning of November 7, 2024, the author Marko Martin, who had been invited as a keynote speaker, incurred the displeasure and anger of Federal President Steinmeier because he said what he had to say. Sitting opposite him was the Federal President, someone who had distinguished himself as a "long-time smooth talker, appeaser and thus indirectly also an encourager of Russian aggression policy" since 2014. The political decision-makers in the Federal Republic of Germany, in broad agreement with large sections of the population, had disregarded the Ukrainian people's fight for freedom against the imperialist Putin in favor of cheap energy supplies. Later, when the Russian tanks moved towards Kiev, these political decisions mutated into errors or gaps in knowledge against which no one would ever be immune. But - and this is one of the topics of Marko Martin's lecture - there is a long tradition of ignoring or downplaying struggles for freedom or discrediting them as explosive devices for political systems of order. A finding that seems strange after the German experience with the peaceful revolution of 1989. However, according to Martin's diagnosis: even in the thirty-fifth year after the peaceful revolution in the GDR, the mental patterns in East and West are still "alienated" from the concrete value of freedom. Marko Martin's new book "Freiheitsaufgaben" is therefore about domestic debates on democracy and freedom versus authoritarianism and heteronomy, debates that he embeds in historical experiences and expands to an international level.

In a lecture and discussion, we will address the questions of courage and the will to be free.

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