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War and the Stance of Literature.
Brandenburger Tor, CCO Public Domain
Akademie der Künste
Pariser Platz 4
10117 Berlin

“We are at the limit of where words are not enough and have to prove who we really are“, wrote the author Hans Erich Nossack in October 1946 to his writer colleague Ilse Molzahn, who had lost both her sons in the war. Eighty years later, their correspondence, published for the first time in "Sinn und Form", still provides food for thought on how to write about war and loss, responsibility and guilt.

With Marcel Beyer, Thomas Ehrsam, Kateryna Mishchenko, Elisa Primavera-Lévy (moderation), Gustav Seibt (welcome), Henrik Mrochen and Zalina Sanchez (reading)