INSEL lesen mit Sabine Günther "Herzasthma des Exils"

ERZASTHMA DES EXILS - that's what Thomas Mann called the disease that afflicted many of the artists and intellectuals who fled Germany in the 1930s .On their escape route across Europe, Marseille played a key role. In the years 1940-42, tens of thousands of emigrants gathered here, including such famous writers as Anna Seghers, Alfred Döblin, Heinrich Mann, Walter Benjamin and André Breton, in a wild race against time to obtain the necessary papers for their exile to the United States or Mexico and places on overseas freighters. In her book, Sabine Günther follows in the footsteps of the exiles in 10 stages. It is a historical and literary journey from Marseille station to the historic port.

Sabine Günther founded the association Nord-Sud-Passage in 1996. Franco-German Cultural Exchange in Europe. As a feature and non-fiction writer, she wrote about literary life in the South of France and guided guests through the places where the intellectuals and artist:ins who fled Germany before the Nazis waited for their departure overseas and lived temporarily. Since 2018, the publicist and literary mediator has moved her center of life back to Berlin after 25 years in France.