Montagsprosa in der Orangerie: Eva Weissweiler liest "Lisa Fittko. Biographie einer Fluchthelferin"

The Monday Prose at the Orangery starts its literary series on April 15 - this year with the theme of Europe. Eva Weissweiler will be reading from her new book "Lisa Fittko. Biography of an escape helper".

Lisa Fittko became famous as an escape helper for the great philosopher Walter Benjamin. She was Jewish and a communist and thus herself a victim of persecution by the Nazi regime. "Fighting against the barbarism that had taken root in the center of Europe" was her concern. Eva Weissweiler traces the footsteps of this remarkable woman and shows the woman born in what is now Ukraine as a homeless person whose early life took her all over Europe from Budapest to Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Basel, Paris, Amsterdam and Marseillaise. For her and for all those she helped, hope was the new world.

Dr. phil. Eva Weissweiler, born in 1951, is a renowned musicologist and biographer and lives as a freelance writer and film author in Cologne. She has become well known for her biographies of women who follow Jewish lives.

Greeting: Mayor Clara Gerlach

Moderation: Dr. Karin Füllner

A joint event by Benrather Kulturkreis e. V., Benrath Public Library, EUROPE DIRECT Düsseldorf and Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit Düsseldorf e.V.

With the kind support of the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf.

Please register by telephone: 0211 899 7187

Date: April 15
Time: 19:30
Location: Benrath Public Library, Urdenbacher Allee 6, 40593 Düsseldorf