Die Anhörung. Ein Theaterstück über Moral und Verrat

In the organizer's words:

Wolfgang Schnur was regarded as a brilliant lawyer who took on the GDR state on behalf of his clients. What nobody suspected was that he was not only an opposition lawyer and a Christian - but also a Stasi informer for 25 years. In 1990, Schnur founded the citizens' movement Demokratischer Aufbruch (Democratic Awakening) with the pastors Rainer Eppelmann and Friedrich Schorlemmer. He almost became the first freely elected Prime Minister of the GDR. His most powerful advocate: the then Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

The play "The Hearing" is based on the last interview with the journalist Alexander Kobylinski and his true-to-life statements. A piece of contemporary history that makes it clear how dictatorship works and what it does to people.

Program

• Welcome: Prof. Axel Klausmeier, Director of the Berlin Wall Foundation
• Introduction: Prof. Jürgen Haase, Wilhelm-Fraenger-Institute
• Music: Dr. Karl-Heinz Bomberg
• Scenic reading with Max Urlacher and Uli Plessmann
• Conversation: Prof. Jürgen Haase & Dr. Karl-Heinz Bomberg

Concept and direction: Prof. Jürgen Haase

In cooperation with the Wilhelm-Fraenger-Institut, Prof. Jürgen Haase and the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship