Subtitle:
The Legacy of a German-Jewish Socialist and Antifascist Wrtier
Activity Type:
Seminar
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Presenter:
Stephen Brockmann
Date:
Friday, September 18, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:30
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
Baker/Porter Hall 246A, Carnegie Mellon University
Contact Email:
alissaklots@pitt.edu
This lecture is part of the Socialist Studies Seminar.
This paper focuses on Anna Seghers, one of the msot prominent German anti-fascist, socialist writers of the twentieth century. Seghers helped found the Federation of Proletarian-Revolutionary Writers in the 1920s, became a key anti-Nazi writer duringthe Hitler dictatorship, and a founding mother of East German litertature after the war. A leading literary-cultural functionary in the German Democratic Republic, she was also the most important German socialist realist authro fo the twentieth century. What became of her legacy?
UCIS Unit:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Non-University Sponsors:
Carnegie Mellon Department of History
Is Event Already in University Calendar?:
Yes
University Calendar ID:
53849939641536