Thomas Mann House Events Archive
September 2020
Exhibition: Thomas Mann »DEMOCRACY WILL WIN!«
Stiftung Buch-, Medien- und Literaturhaus München (Salvatorplatz 1, 80333 München)
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»Es ist mit der Selbstverständlichkeit der Demokratie in aller Welt eine zweifelhafte Sache geworden. Es ist die Stunde gekommen […] für eine Selbstbesinnung der Demokratie, für ihre Wiedererinnerung, Wiedererörterung und Bewußtmachung – mit einem Wort: für ihre Erneuerung im Gedanken und im Gefühl.« - THOMAS MANN: VOM ZUKÜNFTIGEN SIEG DER DEMOKRATIE, 1938
We are currently seeing the fundamental values of democracy being called into question. Populism and nationalism are placing democratic societies under massive pressure. The exhibition " Thomas Mann: Democracy will win!" of the Literaturhaus München represents a concrete contribution to the current debate about our democracy. It is intended to contribute to its "recollection, reconsideration and reawakening", to the "renewal of democracy in thought and feeling".
*Euro 7.- / 5.-
STUDENT SPECIAL: On Mondays students pay only 2 Euros
Partners
A cooperation with LITERATURHAUS MÜNCHEN. Supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.
Paulskirche: 55 Voices for Democracy
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In his monthly addresses, Mann spoke out strongly against fascism, becoming the most significant German defender of democracy in exile. Thomas Mann’s conviction that the “social renewal of democracy” is the condition and guarantee of democracy’s victory is more relevant now than ever. Building on that legacy, the series brings together internationally renowned intellectuals, scientists, and artists to present their ideas on the renewal of democracy.
The series is presented by the Thomas Mann House in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk, the Los Angeles Review of Books and Süddeutsche Zeitung, funded by the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and the Berthold Leibinger Foundation.
From September 2nd on, Frankfurt's St. Paul’s Church will permanently present the Lectures in its exhibition. The ceremony on the occasion of the opening of the 55 Voices media stations, with speeches by Thomas Mann Fellows Jutta Allmedinger and Rainer Forst as well as Honorary Fellow Frido Mann, will be broadcast as a live stream.
Participants
Jutta Allmendinger ist eine deutsche Soziologin. Nach Stationen unter anderen an der Harvard University, der LMU und dem Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, ist Prof. Allmendinger seit April 2007 Präsidentin des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin für Sozialforschung. 2013 erhielt sie das Bundesverdienstkreuz erster Klasse der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. 2014 wurde ihr die Ehrendoktorwürde der Universität Tampere verliehen. Seit 2017 ist sie Mitherausgeberin der Wochenzeitung „Die Zeit“ Im Jahr 2018 gehörte Jutta Allmendinger zu den ersten Thomas Mann Fellows im eben eröffneten Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles.
Rainer Forst ist Professor für Politische Theorie und Philosophie an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Seit 2007 ist er Mitbegründer und Sprecher des Forschungsverbunds „Normative Ordnungen“ und seit 2009 der DFG-Kollegforschergruppe „Justitia Amplificata“. Darüber hinaus ist er seit 2012 Direktor der DFG-Forschungsgruppe „Transnationale Gerechtigkeit“. Im Jahr 2012 erhielt er den Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis der DFG. Er ist ordentliches Mitglied der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Corresponding Fellow der British Academy. Darüber hinaus ist er Mitglied des Executive Editorial Committee von „Political Theory“ und in unterschiedlichen Funktionen an zahlreichen weiteren internationalen Zeitschriften beteiligt. Rainer Forst wird sich im Jahr 2021 als Thomas Mann Fellow in Los Angeles aufhalten.
Frido Mann, in Kalifornien geboren und Enkel von Thomas Mann, arbeitete nach dem Studium der Musik, der Katholischen Theologie und der Psychologie viele Jahre als klinischer Psychologe in Münster, Leipzig und Prag. Er lebt heute als freier Schriftsteller in München. Zuletzt sind von ihm erschienen „An die Musik. Ein autobiographischer Essay“ und, zusammen mit Christine Mann, „Es werde Licht. Die Einheit von Geist und Materie in der Quantenphysik“. Im August 2018 ist „Das Weiße Haus des Exils“ über das Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles im Fischer Verlag erschienen.
Partner
A cooperation with the City Council of Frankfurt am Main
Worldwide Reading in support of the Democracy movement in Hong Kong
Online
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Radical Diversity: Discussion Series with Mohamed Amjahid and Max Czollek (Houston)
Online
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Mohamed Amjahid and Max Czollek will engage in a conversation with guests in the U.S. about strategies for a more open, diverse and just society in Germany and the U.S. Thomas Mann Fellow and author Mohamed Amjahid and poet and publicist Max Czollek talk about political activism and diversity. In their work, they discuss the politics of history in the discourse on integration in both countries and raise the question: How is social diversity expressed in politics and art in both countries? What are counter-concepts to white, hegemonic culture?
The guests in the second episode in Houston are author Corinne Kaszner, artist Joy Harris and curator Ashley DeHoyos.
Live online stream on September 16, 2020, 12 PM (PST).
No admission.
Participants
Max Czollek was born in Berlin in 1987, where he still lives and works today. In 2012, he received a degree in political science from the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin). In 2016, he completed his doctorate studies at the Center for Research on Antisemitism (Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, ZfA), also at the same Technical University. Since 2009, Czollek has been a member of poetry collective G13, which has published books and organized lectures.
Ashley DeHoyos is a cultural producer and educator born and raised in Baytown, TX. They received a BFA from Sam Houston State University (2013) and MFA in Curatorial Practice from Maryland Institute College of Art (2016). As of 2018, they have served as the Curator at DiverseWorks in Houston, TX, where they have organized a full range of visual, performing, and public arts programming. Through their curatorial practice, Dehoyos is focused on creating cultural platforms with intersectional perspectives and speculative futures as they relate to history and the environment.
Jeanette “Joy” Harris is a Houston-based artist, writer, and curator interested in performance and politics. She was a scholar in residence at the Hannah Arendt Institute at Bard College and currently serves on the American Philosophical Association’s Committee for Public Philosophy. Joy has shown creative works in the US, UK, and EU and is on the management committee for Experimental Action, Houston’s performance art biennial. Joy is pursuing a PhD in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at European Graduate School.
Corinne Kaszner is a political scientist and sociologist, whose focus lies within the fields of political philosophy, social justice and diversity, gender theory and politics. She has been a trainer for Social Justice and Diversity since 2013, the book Praxishandbuch Social Justice und Diversity was published in 2019. Corinne is currently working as research associate in the project "Heidegger and Postmodernity" based at University of Cologne and pursuing a PhD in history of philosophy and political thought at Technical University of Darmstadt.
Partners
"Radical Diversity" is presented by the Goethe Institutes in North America in cooperation with Thomas Mann House, the Institute for Social Justice & Radical Diversity, funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation North America.
