Poetry evening - "Poèmes embarbelés / Poems behind barbed wire"

On January 27, the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism, poems by prisoners of war from the Oflag IV-D (Hoyerswerda) camp will be read during an evening of remembrance at the Institute français Dresden.

"Oflag IV-D" is the name of one of the largest prisoner-of-war camps for officers in Elsterhorst (now Nardt) near Hoyerswerda in Saxony, which existed from 1939 to 1945.

Among others, 6,000 French officers were imprisoned here during the Second World War.

On January 27, the day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism, poems written by these officers during their imprisonment will be recited in the original with a summary in German. The authors and their lives in the "Elsterhorst" camp will also be presented.

A cooperation between the Centrum Frankreich | Frankophonie, the Institut français Dresden, the Francophonie Dresden e.V. and the REVE e.V.

An event as part of the Franco-German Week 2025.

Admission: Free

The poster can be downloaded as a PDF under Poster_Poetry_Evening_27.01.25.