Jürgen Fuchs Colloquium November 10, 2014
On 10 November, the MitteleuropaZentrum, together with the State Commissioner for State Security Records in Saxony, organized a Jürgen Fuchs colloquium. The occasion was the performance of H. Johannes Wallmann's Jürgen Fuchs cycle "Ich schweige nicht" on November 9, 7:30 pm, in the Dreikönigskirche Dresden. The program was as follows:
10:00 Walter Schmitz: Poetics of publication 10:30 Ernest Kuczynski: "Saying what is" or the facets of dictatorship in the literary work of Jürgen Fuchs
11:00 Johannes Wallmann: Music - a daughter of freedom? (my Jürgen Fuchs cycle and its environment)
11:30 Discussion
14:00 Lutz Rathenow: Remembrance of Jürgen Fuchs
14:30 Doris Liebermann: Jürgen Fuchs and Eastern Europe
15:00 Discussion
(Location: Counseling room of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies, Wiener Str. 48)
Afterwards, a panel discussion on the topic "I will not remain silent? On courage, oppression and heedlessness".
The event explored the demands of courage and resistance in today's pluralistic society and at the same time posed the question of what the legacy of the GDR opposition still means for us today.
The participants were: Wolfgang Donsbach, Joachim Klose, Antje Hermenau, Francesco Micieli, Thomas Rosenlöcher and host Walter Schmitz.
You can find the flyer for the event here