Unburnable Book by RocketdockMay 10: Bookfans are on the streets today, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the book burnings that took place in Berlin and other German cities on May 10, 1933. On Odeonsplatz and Königsplatz here in Munich there is a day-long "Reading Against Forgetting" of many of the banned authors whose books were burned: Franz Kafka, Heinrich Heine, Erich Kästner, Bertolt Brecht, Robert Musil...the list is long. Go here to find it.
Bücherlesung has been holding readings on this day since 2005 to remind us: "Burned, forbidden, banned - the list of writers is long. Uncounted intellectuals and artists were robbed of their homeland and work, many were murdered or led to their deaths. Never forget!"
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