In the St. Petersburg art space mArs (Marsovo Pole, 3) on Tuesday, June 20, a meeting with writer Nikita Eliseev “Victor Klemperer and his autobiography” will take place. The event will be held as part of the “Kvartirnik” project. The start is at 19:00.
Anyone who deals with fascism and totalitarianism is familiar with the work of the linguist Victor Klemperer “Language of the Third Reich” (“LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii”). Miraculously surviving in Dresden during the Nazism, a German Jew, a student of the famous philologist, Karl Vossler, analyzed the language of Nazi propaganda. This analysis is exemplary to this day.
Less well known is another of his books, published after his death, two-volume memoirs, called not without humor: “Curriculum vitae” (“Brief biography”). Klemperer wrote this book after the pogrom on November 9, 1938 and a short stay in the Dresden Gestapo. He wrote from 1938 to 1944, waiting to be sent first to the Judenhaus (“Jewish Home”), then to the “model concentration camp”, Theresienstadt, then to Auschwitz. Klemperer was helped to escape from Judenhaus by his wife, an East Prussian baroness and pianist. She also saved the typescript of her memoirs. The memoirs cover the period from 1881 to 1918 and almost all of Europe from Paris to Vilnius.
Critic and translator Nikita Eliseev will tell about them and their author.
Tickets for “Kvartirnik” can be purchased on TimePad or at the box office before the event.
Source: Rosbalt
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