Lecture tour USA and Canada: Concluding review September 19th – October 29th 2019 My meanwhile terminated lecture tour of nearly six weeks, leading from coast to coast through the USA and ending at the Toronto International Festival of Authors in Canada, had a mainly political purpose. It was supposed to contribute [...]
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH October 9th 2019 My halt at the campus of Cal State University at Long Beach in the south of Los Angeles was a special day. I was invited by Program Director and Graduate Advisor for German Language and Literature, Dr. Jeffrey L. High, who welcomed [...]
Washington D.C. October 1st 2019 From the beginning of my lecture tour I have been looking forward to my today’s honored appearance at the Library of Congress with almost feverish excitement. The more I am thankful to have been able to participate in a class at Banneker Academic Highschool [...]
Thomas Mann’s grand piano in the “White House of Exile” In spring 1944, when the victorious end of the war became foreseeable and a first inner detention began to spread within my family, my grandfather instructed my parents to find a grand piano for him in San Francisco. The [...]