Exhibition “DDR-Leseland” – Is there freedom of speech? The GDR exhibition showcases Posters about the GDR literature and its history. Followed by a Panel discussion.
Friday, 10. November 2023, 1-4pm
Join us as we pay tribute to authors of the German Democratic Republic and the Apartheid Era and draw parallels between those, who defied limitations on free speech and literature.
The Exhibition “DDR-Leseland” is founded by the Bundesstiftung für Aufarbeitung and displays several Poster about German Literature before the fall of the German wall.
Programme:
13:00pm - Opening His excellency, the German ambassador, Mr. Andreas Peschke will open the Exhibition. 14:00 - 16:00pm - Panel discussion The Exhibition is followed by a Panel discussion with Experts in the field of Literature, especially in the field of the GDR and Apartheid. Experts:
Ms. Sylvia Schlettwein (Author, Lecturer, University of Namibia)
Dr. Danai S. Mupotsa (Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand)
Prof. Dr. W.D. Burger (Lecturer, University of Pretoria)
Mr. Andreas Peschke (Ambassador of Germany in South Africa)
Moderator: Prof. Dr. em. Carlotta von Maltzan (Stellenbosch University)
16:00pm - refreshments 17:00pm - film screening: Bornholmer Straße (free entrance) A comic look at the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989, told from the point of view of the German border guards at the checkpoint where it all started.
The Exhibition will be displayed until the 10.12.2023 (free entrance).
