Über Freiheit - Lesung aus dem Buch von Timothy Snyder mit Akteur:innen des Ausländerrats Dresden e. V.

In the organizer's words:

In cooperation with the Ausländerrat Dresden e. V.

When individual and social freedoms are restricted, people have always decided to set out on the path to a freer and more self-determined life. But what does freedom consist of beyond freedom of movement?

In his much-discussed book On Freedom (2024), historian Timothy Snyder developed an idea of freedom that not only means freedom FROM something (oppression, paternalism, restrictions), but above all freedom TO something. Snyder begins with experiences from his own biography in order to make generally valid aspects of freedom tangible.

At the reading organized by the Ausländerrat Dresden e. V., people will read passages from Snyder's book who live in Dresden today but have life experiences in dictatorships and autocracies, as well as people who are actively committed to liberal democracy.

In personal statements, they then comment on what they have read against the background of their own experiences. The readers have their individual backgrounds in Iran, Venezuela, Russia and Ukraine, one reader is involved in the protection of human rights at Amnesty International.

Moderator: Nilsson Samuelsson, Chairman of the Ausländerrat Dresden e. V.