Scenic reading & talk with Max Urlacher and Uli Plessmann | Moderation of the talk: Susan Schulz, Dr. Steffi Brüning
Scenic reading & discussion with Max Urlacher and Uli Plessmann | Moderation of the discussion: Susan Schulz (Heinrich Böll Foundation MV), Dr. Steffi Brüning (Documentation and Memorial Site Rostock/LpB MV)
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, Prof. Jürgen Haase and the historian Dr. Volker Höffer, Stasi Records Archive Rostock in the Federal Archives.
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.
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: Schnur was not only a lawyer for opposition members and Christians, but also an IM of the State Security for 25 years.
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A cooperation event of Heinrich Böll Foundation MV, Documentation and Memorial Site Rostock/LpB MV and Literaturhaus Rostock, together with the Wilhelm-Fraenger Institute, Prof. Jürgen Haase, in cooperation with the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship.
