Date
October 19, 2019
19:00 - 21:00 Uhr
Veranstaltungsort
Schaworalle
Stoltzestraße 14-16
60311 Frankfurt am Main
“Ede and Unku – the true story”
by Janko Lauenberger and Juliane von Wedemeyer
Ede und Unku – with over 5 million copies one of the best-selling books in Germany. The first edition was published in 1931, the book was read at school for many years and tells of the unusual friendship between the worker boy Ede and the Sinti girl Unku during the Weimar Republic. Less known, however, is that shortly after Hitler seized power the book was banned and Unku was killed in a concentration camp. The musician Janko Lauenberger is Unku’s great cousin. In this book he tells her true story and at the same time his own as a Sinti child in the former GDR and later in reunited Germany.
The authors will be present and read excerpts from their book.
Admission is free of charge