richard Sorge came to Tokyo in 1933. Disguised as a specialist journalist and a staunch Nazi, the repeatedly wounded veteran of the First World War was in fact the best and most daring communist spy Moscow had ever trained.
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VISUAL Einsatz in Tokio - Wie Richard Sorge und Richard Hughes Geschichte schrieben
His pan-Asian network of agents provided information that had a decisive influence on the final battles of the Second World War. But in the end, he was betrayed by the very system that had created him.
At the same time, Richard Hughes was transported from the Australian provinces to Japanese enemy territory. The young journalist with a penchant for classic crime fiction became one of the most brilliant chroniclers of international espionage activities.
Immortalized in the works of his friends John le Carré and Ian Fleming, he landed sensational coups in Tokyo, Moscow and Hong Kong. He reported from the war fronts in Africa, unmasked agents in hiding, drank with gangsters, natives, princes and prime ministers. But he was to cut his teeth on one of his drinking buddies: Richard Sorge.
This dual biography describes the lives of the two Richards, whose careers show many parallels, although their motivations could not have been more different. At the same time, it is the story of an entire era: the age of spectacular espionage cases.
PARTICIPANTS
- Andreas Neuenkirchen, author
MODERATION
- Prof. Dr. Helmut Müller-Enbergs, political scientist
Admission free
(IN GERMAN)
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Dates
September 2025
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