• Thu 05 03 2015 •
Anti-Pegida. A Polemic!
with STEFAN WEIDER
moderated by CHRISTIAN WERTHSCHULTE
Getting on our soapboxes won’t help us to understand and to stand up to the Pegida movement. Pegida has a prehistory that reaches the depths of our society. The opinions represented by the movement have been spread by the media in Germany over preceding years and anticipated by notable intellectuals and authors: Thilo Sarrazin, Alice Schwarzer, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Ralph Giordano, Monika Maron, Günter Wallraff, Necla Kelek, Henryk M. Broder, Hamed Abdel-Samad, Dan Diner, and Tilman Nagel are some of the most well known. The polemic from Stefan Weidner reveals how ideals of reason, freedom, and democracy have been abused for years to create an atmosphere against Muslims living in the country, which eventually leads to open racism. Anti-Pegida. Eine Streitschrift! comes out in February on Amazon Kindle Singles and is presented this evening by author Stefan Weidner.
Venue: King Georg, Sudermanstraße 2, 50670 Cologne
Entry: 20:00, Start 21:00, 3 EUR
