»HANNA KIEL ›DIE SCHLACHT UM DEN HÜGEL‹« LESUNG MIT JULIANE KÖHLER

In the organizer's words:

Introduction & moderation: Eva Maria Thüne (author & editor)
Concept: Dagmar Knöpfel (author and director)
Reading: Juliane Köhler (actress)

As a young woman, the author and art historian Hanna Kiel (1894-1988) was part of Munich's intellectual scene in the 1920s. She later lived in Berlin and from 1938 in Florence. There, in August 1944, she was directly affected by the occupation of Fiesole by the Wehrmacht, a few weeks before the city was liberated by the Allies and partisans. The text, written in German in 1946 and first published in 2024, describes the life-threatening situation of the civilian population. Hanna Kiel tried as far as she could to mediate and help the Italian population, but was then arrested by the German occupiers.

"The Battle of the Hill. Eine Chronik aus Fiesole im August 1944" AvivA Verlag // Ed. and with an afterword by Eva-Maria Thüne) is a moving account of the experience and at the same time a literary text characterized by remarkable clarity and compassion.

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ADMISSION: 8.