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SUMMARY:The Anti-Nazi: Hermann Budzislawski (1901-1978) and the Twentieth 
 Century - Professor Daniel Siemens (Newcastle University)
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CONTACT:Julian Siebert
DESCRIPTION:This talk reconstructs the political and intellectual biograph
 y of one of Germany’s most ostracized public intellectuals of the twenti
 eth century: Hermann Budzislawski (1901-1978)\, a German-born Jewish journ
 alist\, publicist\, and later professor of Journalism and politician in th
 e GDR. During the 1930s\, he became highly influential as the editor-in-ch
 ief of the legendary left-wing weekly ‘Die Weltbühne’\, published in 
 exile as ‘Die neue Weltbühne’\, first in Prague and later in Paris. L
 ike many intellectuals of his generation\, Budzislawski lived through four
  political regimes in Europe and the United States. Challenged to position
  himself in these changing political contexts\, Budzislawski fashioned him
 self as a socialist democrat\, a western liberal and – ultimately – a 
 hard-boiled communist. His life story allows for rare insights into the co
 mplexities and continuities of political and intellectual engagement in th
 e twentieth century. It is also a lesson about the price of political adap
 tation and resistance. Furthermore\, it provides a striking example of the
  limits of German memory culture after 1990\, which confined Budzislawski
 ’s life-long anti-Fascism to the ash heap of history.\n\n"Register to re
 ceive zoom webinar access details":https://wolfson-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webin
 ar/register/WN_teJ2xN4ES-uP50Ft5iTzbQ
LOCATION:Wolfson College Zoom webinar
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