ANOTHER HISTORY OF EAST GERMANY FROM 1989 TO THE PRESENT DAY
The fight for freedom in East Germany - Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk's uncompromising analysis: The AfD is a phenomenon in Germany as a whole, but it is particularly successful in East Germany. How can this be explained? Why is liberal democracy being called into question in the very place where the first successful revolution on German soil took place? Ilko Sascha Kowalczuk tells the story of East Germany since 1990 as a struggle for freedom - a struggle whose outcome points the way for the future of the whole of Germany.
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Festsaal im Peter-Edel, Berlin-Weißensee
Plakat: Lesung - Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk
East Germany is currently the subject of intense debate, and Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk is one of the most prominent voices in this debate. The fight for freedom is his life's work. Having grown up under the SED dictatorship himself, he has published standard works on the history of the GDR and communism, but also on the revolution of 1989 and the consequences of the “takeover” of the GDR by the Federal Republic.
The basic thesis of this book is that East Germany suffered a “freedom shock” in 1989/90. How East German society copes with it will determine where it develops. Kowalczuk wants to shake people up: to more active personal responsibility and to a view of history in which the GDR does not become more beautiful the longer ago it was. In this book, dictatorship remains a dictatorship and unity a success story of freedom.
Sören Benn meets Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk
Monday, 14.10.2024, 20:00 hrs
Location: Peter Edel Educational and Cultural Center
Berliner Allee 125
13088 Berlin
(Program in German)
