The true-to-life statements of the lawyer Wolfgang Schnur, who clashed with the GDR state on behalf of his clients, are at the center of this unique play
Thu, 2.7, 7 pm | Peter Weiss Haus, Doberaner Str. 21, Rostock
Scenic reading & discussion: "The hearing: 10 scenes from the life of W. Schnur - the workings of a dictatorship"
With Max Urlacher and Uli Plessmann
By: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Haase
Wolfgang Schnur (1944 - 2016) was regarded in Rostock and beyond as a brilliant lawyer who took on the GDR state on behalf of his clients. He almost became the first freely elected prime minister of the GDR in 1990. What nobody suspected was that Schnur was not only a lawyer for opposition activists and Christians, but also an IM of the State Security for 25 years.
The play "The Hearing" by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Haase is based on the last interview between Wolfgang Schnur and the journalist Alexander Kobylinski. Instead of an artistic adaptation, the focus is on Schnur's original statements: a unique piece of contemporary history that makes it clear how dictatorship works and what it does to people.
After the staged reading, we will talk to the artists involved and the historian Dr. Volker Höffer, Stasi Records Archive Rostock in the Federal Archives.
Moderation: Dr. Steffi Brüning, Documentation and Memorial Site Rostock/LpB MV
Moderation: Dr. Steffi Brüning, Rostock Documentation and Memorial Centre/LpB MV
Admission: 5/8/10 EUR & Kulturticket
Organizer: inside:
Documentation and Memorial Site in the Former State Security Detention Center Rostock/LpB M-V, Heinrich Böll Foundation MV & Literaturhaus Rostock
