How Group 47 came into being...

On the founding day of Group 47: "When Hans Werner Richter first invited former employees of "Ruf" to a meeting in Bannwaldsee in September 1947, nobody was thinking of forming a group. We wanted to prepare a new magazine... - Heinz Freidrich | Quote from "Die Gruppe 47" by Toni Richter, p. 17, lines 1-6, published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch: Kiepenheuer & Witsch | Find out how "Ruf" and the subsequent magazine, became Gruppe 47 and how it developed. Dr. Ute van der Maer will read. (Tickets at the tourist information offices and at www.kaiserbaeder-auf-usedom.de - admission: € 5.00)