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"It is a terrible spectacle, when the irrational becomes popular.“
Thomas Mann, 1943
Thomas Mann, 1943
"We have to stop thinking about "us“ against "them“. "We“ could be all people who want to live in a society freed of defamation and violence.“ Lena Gorelik
"There is a difference between responsibility and guilt. We are all responsible for that which originated in Germany‘s being („Wesen“), and was perpetrated by Germany as a whole.“ Thomas Mann, 1945.
Weizäcker’s quote from 1985 is well known, but did you know that in 1945, Thomas Mann already called the allied victory over Nazi Germany "Germany’s liberation“ ?
During the war, Thomas Mann recorded a series of BBC lecturers "To the German listener“ warning of the inhumanity of the Nazi terror.
A map of Thomas Mann‘s lecture tours across the USA 1938-43.
In 2016, the German @AuswaertigesAmt bought Mann‘s house in Pacific Palisades/ California as a place to remember and debate the challenge of preserving a free, open and democratic society.
"We, every one of us, writers and citizens, can only form the backbone of democracy, if we possess a backbone ourselves.“
Juli Zeh.
Juli Zeh.
The second part of the exhibition looks at what Thomas Mann‘s fight for democracy means for us today. Important to know that democracy was an acquired taste for him. His life was a long journey from monarchist to democrat.
A video in the exhibition shows @igorpianist explaining that physical violence is based on the erosion of civilized and respectful debate and the brutalization of language.
Also showing the famous Hannah Arendt-Interview with Günther Gaus where she explains that "speech is action“. "Humanity can’t be achieved in solitude.“ @Arendt_Center
What a timely, thought-provoking exhibition this is @LithausMUC about Thomas Mann and Democracy. Shining a welcome and necessary light on the responsibility of the individual in a free society. Thank you.
What a neighbourhood in California: Mann, Feuchtwanger, Adorno, Horkheimer, Brecht, Schönberg, Reinhardt, Francesco Mendelssohn, and many others.
