Birgit Weyhe: Silence - Reading and conversation with Ella Detscher in the series "Compass: 8 Visions"

Silence about human rights violations benefits perpetrators and prevents the victims from being remembered. Birgit Weyhe breaks the "silence" (Avant Verlag, 2025) and tells a little-known chapter of German-Argentinean history: Ellen Marx was 17 when she arrived in Buenos Aires. As a Jew, she had to flee Nazi Germany in 1939. 30 years later, Elisabeth Käsemann went to Argentina as a politically engaged student. Like Ellen's daughter Nora Marx, she became a victim of the military dictatorship, whose opponents disappeared in torture camps in the 1970s. The Federal Foreign Office remained silent - due to economic interests and the planned soccer World Cup in Argentina. "For me, remembrance has become an act of resistance," says Birgit Weyhe and counters forgetting with impressive images in her graphic novel. She talks about this with Ella Detscher from the Documentation Center for National Socialism.
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Photo: © Vera Drebusch
Co-organizer: Documentation Center National Socialism and Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg
Supported as part of the Literature Summer 2026 - A series of events by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation, www.literatursommer.de

Date: 19.06.2026, 17:30
Location: Freundeskreis-Auditorium of the Augustian museum, Augustinerplatz
Admission: 10/ 8 euros

Reading and discussion
Off-site