The third in the Library's lecture series, 'Writing Wrongs: The Nazi Era in Fiction', examining the historical perspective of Nazi era fiction.
at The Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, London, W1W 5BH.
Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh in 1956. He studied law at Birmingham University and qualified as a barrister. After a brief period as an advertising copywriter, he left to pursue a career as a writer. His first novel was March Violets, set in pre-war Berlin and featuring private eye Bernie Gunther. The Pale Criminal and A German Requiem followed, also featuring Bernie and making up the original ‘Berlin Noir’ trilogy. Philip has most recently returned to the series with The One from the Other, A Quiet Flame and If the Dead Rise Not which won the RBA International Award for Crime Writing and the Ellis Peters Historical Award from the Crime Writers’ Association last year.
Guy Walters is the author and editor of nine books, including the critically acclaimed Berlin Games and his latest work, Hunting Evil. After beginning on The Times as feature writer and commissioning editor, Walters continues to write for a number of UK newspapers and magazines. He is co-editor of The Voice of War, an anthology of Second World War memoirs, and lives in Wiltshire with his wife and two children.
Admission is free but places are limited. To reserve a place, please click here on telephone 020 7636 7247.
The fourth in the Library's lecture series, 'Writing Wrongs: The Nazi Era in Fiction', examining the historical perspective of Nazi era fiction.
at The Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, London, W1W 5BH.
Admission is free but places are limited. To reserve a place, please click here on telephone 020 7636 7247.
This new Birkbeck module is offered in partnership with the Wiener Library, the world’s oldest Holocaust memorial institution. Drawing on the Library’s rich and unique collection of primary material, we will engage broadly with Holocaust historiography, which has grown exponentially in recent decades. Close thematic foci will include Nazi propaganda, the experience of the Jewish communities, and the memory landscape of the twentieth century’s definitive crime. For more information on the course, please visit Birkbeck's website.
Time: Monday evenings, 6.30pm-8.30pm, beginning 12 April 2010 and continuing for 11 meetings.
Cost: £175 (£90 concessions) / £200 (£100 concessions)
Run by: Chris Dillon, MA and Kim Wunschmann, MA
The course will be held at The Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, London, W1W 5BH
Enrol online via the Birkbeck website. Click here for guidance on how to enrol.
What emotions did antisemitic films in the Third Reich speak to in their German viewers? How were these emotions linked to 'Jews' on the one hand and to moral feelings on the other? Can these films be understood as an attempt to generate emotional and moral justifications for the antisemitic policies of National Socialism? Part of the FilmTalk series Jews, Nazis, Hollywood, this lecture investigates these questions by analysing the beginning of the film Jud Süss by Veit Harlan (1940).
at The Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, London, W1W 5BH.
Admission is free but places are limited and must be reserved in advance. To reserve a place, please click here on telephone 020 7580 3493.
A special lecture by Professor Detlev Claussen, organised in collaboration with the Leo Baeck Institute.
at The Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, London, W1W 5BH.
Admission is free but places are limited and must be reserved in advance. To reserve a place, please click here on telephone 020 7580 3493.
This lecture takes the film A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder 1948) as a starting point to explore the sexual and political ambiguities surrounding Dietrich's star image, and considers her mixed reception by German audiences.
at The Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, London, W1W 5BH.
Admission is free but places are limited and must be reserved in advance. To reserve a place, please click here on telephone 020 7580 3493.
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