SALON LUITPOLD | Ernst Wiechert im Wandel der Zeit | Lesung und Gespräch mit Schauspielerin Lisa Wagner und Autor Gert Heidenreich

In the organizer's words:

Only those who move hearts move the world
The writer Ernst Wiechert through the ages.
Reading and discussion with actress Lisa Wagner and writer Gert Heidenreich.
Moderation: Alexander Krampe

The writer Ernst Wiechert, who was born in East Prussia on May 18, 1887 and died in Switzerland in 1950, was one of the most widely read German authors from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Wiechert began his career as a German nationalist with an anti-Semitic overtone; his language remained elitist, heavy-blooded and animated by reflective melancholy. In the 1930s, the recurring themes of nature, forests, loneliness, criticism of the city and society concentrated his attitude into one of rejection of the totalitarian Nazi state. This earned him constant surveillance and ultimately a two-month imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Wiechert, with all his contradictions, is today regarded as a poet of inner emigration, even if his image cannot be categorized simply in terms of anti-Nazi socialist clichés.

Writer Gert Heidenreich presents Wiechert's work and personality in conversation. Actress Lisa Wagner will read excerpts from Wiechert's novel "Die Jeromin Kinder".