With the participation of the ANNNE FRANK FONDS Basel, the 25th Forum of the Else Lasker-Schüler Society will take place in Amsterdam from 8 to 11 May 2025 to mark the 80th anniversary of the deaths of Else Lasker-Schüler (22 January 1945 in Jerusalem) and Anne Frank (February 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp).
In addition to a staged reading ‘Writing to Live - Anne Frank and Else Lasker-Schüler’, the programme includes various lectures on exile in the Netherlands and the German occupation of the Netherlands in the 1930s and 1940s, a cabaret programme, a concert with settings of poems by Else Lasker-Schüler, a literary walk and, finally, a lecture ‘Why is antisemitism not dying out’ with the EU Antisemitism Commissioner Dr Katharina von Schnurbein.
The events will take place at the Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam OBA (Oosterdokskade 143).
Details and registration at:
www.else-lasker-schueler-gesellschaft.de