30 Jul 2026
Third edition of the series “Literarische Heimat Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf”
Many authors who shaped the cultural life of their time spent part of their lives in Berlin’s Wilmersdorf and Charlottenburg districts. The Stadtbibliothek Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf will present some of these authors in collaboration with the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) and the Acting program at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).
In this third edition of our series “ Literarische Heimat Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf ,” we focus on three authors whose reception by the public could not have been more different.
- The diverse writings of the Austrian-Soviet physician and writer Angela Rohr (1890–1985) gained recognition only after her death.
- The Berlin-born Dinah Nelken (1900–1989) was not only a successful journalist during the Weimar Republic; her entertaining novels also won her a large readership in both West and East Germany before she faded from the public eye.
- Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), on the other hand, is the author of one of the world’s most famous novels: All Quiet on the Western Front. Since its first publication, the novel has continued to captivate new generations of readers.
Program
Venue: Heinrich-Schulz-Bibliothek, Otto-Suhr-Allee 98, 10585 Berlin
Thursday, 19 Nov 2026, 18.00
Georgia Lummert (ZfL): Angela Rohr – Über Wilmersdorf nach Moskau: Psychoanalyse als Schule des Schreibens
Reading: Emilie Defeu and Asena Ersöz (UdK)
Thursday, 10 Dec 2026, 18.00
Nina Weller (ZfL): Dinah Nelken – Heimat auf Widerruf: Wiederentdeckung einer Charlottenburger Schriftstellerin
Reading: Julie Thiele and Roman Vetrov (UdK)
Thursday, 28 Jan 2027, 18.00
Claude Haas (ZfL): Im Herzen kein Berliner. Erich Maria Remarque und die Figur des Unbekannten Soldaten
Reading: Karl-Ishan Barta and Kilian Struck (UdK)
Fig. above: D.M. Nagu from the series Songs for a Future Generation (2020) (detail)