Kulturpolitische Salon — Cultural-political developments based on biographies of well-known personalities
Center for Persecuted Arts, Wuppertaler Str. 160, 42653 Solingen

Host: Andreas Schäfer
Guest: Götz Aly

Götz Aly is a historian and journalist. He worked for the” taz “, the” Berliner Zeitung “and as a visiting professor. His books are translated into many languages. He received the Heinrich Mann Prize in 2002, the Marion Samuel Prize in 2003, and the Ludwig Börne Prize in 2012. In 2011, S. Fischer published by him, among others, “Warum die Deutschen? Why the Jews? Equality, Envy and Racial Hatred 1800-1933” and 2013 “The Burdened. “Euthanasia” 1939-1945: A History of Society”. His major study on the European history of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust “Europe against Jews 1880—1945” was published in February 2017. He received the Geschwister-Scholl Prize for this book in 2018.

Götz Aly is one of the best-known authors on the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust — in his latest book, he asks the central question: How could this happen?

An event by the Bergische Volkshochschule and Center for Persecuted Arts in collaboration with the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft and the Schatzinsel bookstore.

Admission is free - the “pay what you like” principle applies.