Occasion of the bookburning

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On the occasion of the

Book burning on May 10, 1933

NEIGHBORS READ FOR NEIGHBORS. FRIENDS READ FOR FRIENDS.

On May 10, 2019, the 86th anniversary of the Nazis' book burning occurs. On May 10, 1933, humanistic literature went up in flames. In the present moment censorship against authors takes place again in many parts of the world, art lands on the virtual pyre of populists, culture is suppressed.

On this day, neighbors of the Berlin Charlottenburg Schillerstraße 12 to 15, read together with friends, artists, authors, musicians, and people with various professions from books and documents. We read in the salon ALEXANDER OCHS at Schillertrasse 15 from sunrise at 5.19 am until sunset at 8.45 pm. The readings and concert contributions always last ten minutes, a ritual is created and you are cordially invited to participate as a visitor and a listener.

We read texts from followed authors:

Galal Alahmadi, Rose Alien, Hans Arp, Gottfried Benn, Wolf Biermann, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Leonard Cohen, Paul Celan, Anne Frank, Peter Frank, Peter Gan, Nora Gomringer, Ludwig Greve, Arem Hamza, Magus Hirschfeld, Erich Kästner, Imre Kertész , Victor Klemperer, Gertrud Kolmar, Karl Kraus, Asma Kredy, Reiner Kunze, Erri de Luca, Thomas Mann, Herbert Marcuse, Else Lasker pupil, Alfred Polgar, Nelly Sachs, Patrick Süßkind, Gabriele Tergit, Sunar Tokunaga, Kurt Tucholsky, Micha Ullman, Ernst White, Liu Xia, Liao Yiwu, Carl Zuckmayer, Stefan Zweig and many others.

We are: Steffen Adam, Galal Alahmadi, Sabine Babenderende, Katrin Barwinek, Martin Bertsch, Alexander Bertsch, Sonja Bertsch, Bettina Brand, Horst Braunsdorf, Ulrike Brückner, Ulrike Brückner, Christina Doll, Tanja Dückers, Ute Ellerbrock, Oliver Gross, Kirsten Mueller vd Heyden, Ulrich Hutter-Wolandt, Nina Jäckle, Frauke Jung-Lindemann, Mathias Kiess, Hans Peter Kuhn, Rolf Kuehne, Nina Neumaier, Alexander Ochs, Pika, Annika Reich, Manfred Rohwetter, Uwe Rosenbaum, Esther Blanche Scheidler, Alf Setzer, Marleen Stoessel, Falco Weber, Jochen Wolter and many others.

The cellist Adele Bitter (leader of the cellists in the German Symphony Orchestra) plays pieces from Jewish Ursula Mamlok, who as a child emigrated from the Schillerstraße. The cellist Ulrike Brand improvises texts by Nelly Sachs and Gertrud Kolmar, the violinist and pianist Noga Bruckstein presents Yiddish songs, Farhang Moshtag plays Persian music on a Kamancheh and Mischa Tangian accompanies him.

May 10, 2019, sunrise to sunset, 5.19 - 20.45

Readings from burned books and suppressed literature + music on the subject

in the salon Schillerstrasse 15 / ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE