"That a good Germany may flourish..." Life in the post-war period 1945 to 1949

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In literary texts, reports and contemporary testimonies, "That a good Germany may flourish ..." tells of a country between apocalypse and awakening, of the arrival of the victors, of the confrontation of the Germans with the atrocities of the Nazi regime, the fate of Jewish concentration camp survivors who wandered through the land of the perpetrators as "displaced persons" after their liberation, of hunger winters, displaced persons and war returnees. Political caesuras such as the Potsdam Conference, the Nuremberg Trials, the currency reform or the Berlin Blockade are addressed, as are the often questionable practices of denazification procedures in everyday life. Literature and music after 1945: The programme also deals with cultural awakenings and new beginnings. Whether or how one should still write after the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship and the catastrophe of the Second World War was the subject of heated debate among writers of the time. Roman Knižka recites from works of post-war literature by Wolfgang Borchert, Bertolt Brecht and Nelly Sachs. The OPUS 45 wind quintet performs works by the post-war avant-gardists György Ligeti and Karl Amadeus Hartmann as well as other compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich and Hanns Eisler and other composers with their finger on the pulse of the times. The events of Chemnitz in 1945 will be researched and incorporated into the programme.