Reading and discussion: Volker Weiß - The German Democratic Reich

In his bestseller (Klett-Cotta, 2025), historian Volker Weiß shows how politics is played out on a massive scale in the present by rewriting and reinterpreting history. Inventing false pasts in order to idealize them and recast terms - this is how one's own position is to be strengthened. Methods with strong parallels to a culture war that Trump and Putin are also waging in the fields of history and geopolitics. Volker Weiß talks to the writer Karl-Heinz Ott about the historical image of new right-wing movements.

The reading is part of the joint series "Gegenworte" at the Literaturhaus Freiburg, Bertoldstraße 17. Admission: 11/7 euros

Tickets are available online: https://www.reservix.de/freiburg-im-breisgau/venue/literaturhaus-freiburg/v37333