Über die Freiheit heute - das Ende der Illusionen?

In the organizer's words:

On this evening, we will take a look at the different ideas, aspirations and experiences of freedom that prevailed in the Czech Republic, Poland and (East) Germany before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Together with our experts, we look at historical caesuras and actors of the time: What traces did the suppression of the Prague Spring and the Solidarność movement leave behind? What did these experiences mean for the concepts of freedom and different understandings of the state after 1989? What distinguishes these processes in the Central and Eastern European states from the transformation phase in reunified Germany? How do these three countries relate today to questions of security, nation and Western democracy and how do they relate to Putin's Russia? What is their attitude towards freedom in the face of noisy right-wing populism? Have they already reached the end of illusions?