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Heringsdorf (dpa / mv) - The Usedomer Literature Days started on Thursday in Heringsdorf with a conversation between the publicist Manfred Osten and the author and publisher Robert Eberhardt in their second part.

The official start was in September with a reading by the Nobel Prize winner for literature, Olga Tokarczuk from Poland.

The literature days on the holiday island had been postponed from April to autumn due to the corona pandemic.

Since no audience is allowed, the readings and discussions in the four-day series of events will be streamed live via YouTube and Facebook from the tourism service center in the seaside resort of Heringsdorf.

The topic of Osten (82) and Eberhardt (33) from Thuringia was the association “Work on Europe”, which Osten launched in 2017 with a group of young intellectuals.

Given the dwindling trust in governments and an increasing affirmation of authoritarian surveillance methods, for example in China, the issue was freedom in Europe.

Before that, pupils at the European Comprehensive School in Ahlbeck read from their work, which was written in a writing workshop on the subject of “Being human.

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Until December 5th, the guests of the Usedomer Literature Days are a second Nobel Prize winner for literature, the author Herta Müller, the author Saša Stanišić, the conductor and music researcher Peter Gülke and the historian Andreas Kossert.

On Saturday, Stanišić is to receive the 10th Usedom Literature Prize in Hamburg for his novel "Origin".

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung is organizing a poetry slam “Beethoven and I” on Friday in cooperation with the Usedomer Literature Days, which will guide you through the life of the composer in the year of Ludwig van Beethoven's 250th birthday.

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In 2021, the organizers are planning the Usedomer Literature Days from April 7th to 10th.

The program is to be announced at the end of January.

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Video conversation Osten-Eberhardt