Munich reads from burned books on the Sunday, may 10, 2009, from 11: 00 23:00, on the King square in front of the antique collection in Munich. On May 10, 1933, a few weeks after the Nazi takeover, 50,000 citizens and Munich participated in the Nazi book burnings on the Konigsplatz, staged by students of the two Munich universities and the German student body. Burned books were Erich Maria Remarque, Anna Seghers, Ernst Toller, Kurt Tucholsky, Arnold Zweig and Stefan Zweig from writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger, Sigmund Freud, Erich Kastner, Irmgard Keun, Heinrich Mann, Erich Muhsam. In March 1933, in Germany (in over 50 cities) and later in the occupied countries books and libraries burned and destroyed. This was followed by the destruction of people and the destruction of cities and countries. In Munich, the terrorist act against the literature disintegration of supposedly people began”with a pompous opening ceremony in the Atrium of the Munich University on May 10, 1933.
Pass the flame after a nighttime Torch-light procession through the town the combustion stroke was staged then ranked the King, the books of the enemies of the Reich”. Many of the 1933 burned books are largely unknown. “As in the past years we titled Munich reads burned books” this year citizens a on May 10 from one of the burned books “to read. You can select the text itself (see author list below). If you are interested to read, please register the telephone number 089 157 32 19. Also authors and actors participate in the several hours reading to commemorate the Nazi book burnings. At 10:00 is the artist Wolfram p. Kastner in the lawns of the Royal square in Munich, at the point of the book burnings of 1933 a fire spot produce so that no grass on the history. presscom