THOMAS MANN: »DEUTSCHE, ICH WILL EUCH WARNEN!«

In the organizer's words:

MELY KIYAK, ULRICH MATTHES

Moderation: Daniel Schreiber

Thomas Mann was over sixty years old when he fled to America to escape the Nazis. From there, he addressed German listeners every month during the war. And tried to tell them one thing above all: "Don't join in!"

What was remarkable about Thomas Mann's speeches to the Germans? On the one hand, his great commitment, because he actually
he detested political intervention. But above all, how much the
circumstances changed his language and his writing. The Thomas Mann of the radio speeches is angry, specifically insulting against Hitler and the entire Nazi regime - no comparison to the elegant, ironic prose of the novelist.

War, expulsion and exile have a deep impact on the work of every artist. To interfere or not? For Thomas Mann, the matter was clear: he had no choice but to resist, because "he hated the Nazis from the depths of his poetic and political heart", according to Mely Kiyak, who has republished Thomas Mann's famous radio speeches and provided them with a foreword and afterword ("Deutsche Hörer", S. Fischer Verlag). At the end of the Munich Literature Festival 2025, we will listen to selected speeches, read by Ulrich Matthes and commented on by Mely Kiyak.

"After reading Deutsche Hörer! I can say with all my heart and without any irony that Thomas Mann was a hero."
MELY KIYAK

In cooperation with the Thomas Mann Forum Munich

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ADMISSION: EURO 16.- / 10.- LIVE-STREAMING: Really live, no later retrievability. Links to the streams at www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de, always on the respective event page (click directly, without further access code)