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#Programmtipp:

Am Samstag werden die erste zwei Teile einer Hörspielserie zu Samuel Backetts German Diaries gesendet.

Samstag, 12. September 2026, 20.05 Uhr, Deutschlandfunk, Hörspiel

Guten Empfang wünscht
Sascha

#Geschichte #Nationalsozialismus #Beckett #Hartel #Hörspiel #DLF

"A newly #published #diary of #SamuelBeckett’s extended trip to #Nazi #Germany in the late 1930s helps to explain why the #NobelPrize-winning #Irish #author became active in the #Resistance movement in Occupied #France. Already discussed and cited by #Beckett #scholars in such studies as Samuel #Beckett’s #GermanDiaries 1936–1937, the new #book explains how the creator of #WaitingforGodot, that dramatization of stasis and futility, could turn out to be a man of action opposing the #Holocaust and the downfall of German culture.

At a time when only an estimated 1% or so of #French citizens dared to assist the Resistance, Beckett was from neutral #Ireland, where sympathies were often skewed to the enemies of the much-loathed #British. But he risked his life to participate."

https://forward.com/culture/books/845609/samuel-beckett-resistance-irish-nobel-winning-author-antisemitism-nazi/

"The wind had dropped, as it so often does in Dublin when all the respectable men and women whom it delights to annoy have gone to bed, and the rain fell in a uniform, untroubled manner."

—Samuel Beckett, A Wet Night

#books #Dublin #Beckett #SamuelBeckett #writing #wind #rain #weather