When
noon, Nov. 18, 2016
Where
LSB 346
Dr. Schulze Heuling, who teaches at the Institut für Politische Wissenschaft und Soziologie of the Universität Bonn, will speak about Benedict Lachmann, a Berlin interwar writer, anarchist and bookshop owner. Lachmann was a proponent of the mostly American tradition of individual Anarchism and is a rare exception in Germany. His modern taste in literature influenced his community. When during the 1930s Nazi terror became worse (Lachmann was not only an anarchist, but also of Jewish origin), Lachmann was forced to "sell" his bookshop. Amazingly, he managed to write an extremely detailed yet very readable book on post-revolutionary France. Three years later, in 1942, he was deported to and killed at the Ghetto of Lodz.