ICH WILL LIEBER SCHWEIGEN. Lesung und Gespräch mit Roswitha Quadflieg

In the organizer's words:

Will Quadflieg was a star, his rise began in the so-called Third Reich. Decades after his death, his daughter Roswitha finds his diary, begun shortly before the end of the Second World War. It is time for a serious conversation that never took place during his lifetime.

March 1945: The Red Army moves closer to Berlin every day. Fear and despair are rampant among the civilian population. Is there any way to escape? Roswitha Quadflieg's parents decide to separate. He, one of the most famous actors of the time, begins to write a diary for his wife. When her mother dies, Roswitha Quadflieg finds the diary together with numerous letters from her father. These documents bear witness not only to flight, fear, love and the assertion of a "correct" German culture, but also to guilt, false language, lies and self-deception. Roswitha Quadflieg reconstructs 104 days in her father's life and confronts him posthumously. An impressive collection of evidence, an illuminating dialog.

Roswitha Quadflieg (*1949 in Zurich) is the youngest daughter of the actor Will Quadflieg. She studied painting, graphic art, illustration and typography in Hamburg and worked as a book artist and publisher in her own publishing workshop RaaminPresse on the outskirts of Hamburg. She has also been writing novels, plays and radio plays since 1985. Today she lives in Berlin.

The event is being held in cooperation with the Holocaust Literature Office at Justus Liebig University Giessen and the Hessian State Center for Political Education in the Margarete Bieber Hall (Ludwigstr. 35, 35390 Giessen). The event will be moderated by Prof. Sascha Feuchert. Free admission .