Victor Klemperer: Tagebuch - Kommentierte Lesung mit einleitendem Vortrag und Nachgespräch von Renatus Deckert

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Renatus Deckert -Victor Klemperer: Diary
Annotated reading with introductory lecture
and follow-up discussion

How did contemporaries experience the persecution of the Jews? What could they know, see, hear? Klemperer's diary answers questions like these, which are asked anew by every generation.

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of Romance studies who was thrown out of office by the National Socialists, wanted to be the historian of the catastrophe and bear witness to the time that followed. Day after day, he recorded what he observed and experienced in the "Jews' House" in Dresden: the daily terror with house searches, constant new bans and harassment, occasionally also gestures of solidarity. His diary is a unique document about the everyday persecution of Jews in the middle of a major German city.

Renatus Deckert's lecture is an authorized and licensed reading from Victor Klemperer's diary by Aufbau Verlag. He combines the reading with
with a detailed commentary on the diary passages as well as the opportunity to ask questions and engage in conversation.

Renatus Deckert has presented Victor Klemperer's diary at numerous readings (including at the Saxon State Library in Dresden, the House of Protestant Military Chaplaincy in Berlin, the Tübingen Book Festival, the Meissen Literature Festival and the Lüneburg Museum).

He has also spoken at over 350 events at schools (grammar schools, vocational schools, secondary schools). He has a lot of experience in
didactically and in a personally appealing, vivid way to a younger generation.
to a younger generation.

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