THE FLIGHT OF POETS AND THINKERS

BOOK PRESENTATION

Margit Fischer, John Sailer and Thomas Lachs are refugee children and discuss the topic of flight and emigration with the author.

Moderation Herbert Lackner, Author and journalist

They were Nobel Prize winners, university lecturers, world-famous writers and celebrated conductors, Jews and Christians, politicians and newspaper editors, united by a common fate: the National Socialists wanted to murder them.
In June 1940, Thomas Mann organised an unprecedented rescue operation in New York for persecuted poets and thinkers in Europe. Equipped with a lot of money and a list of 200 names, the young, eccentric American Varian Fry is sent to Lisbon to smuggle these representatives of the intellectual elite out of Europe.
On 4 October, the last official ship, the "Nea Hellas", sails from Lisbon to New York ...
Among the refugees are Sigmund Freud, Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Thomas, Heinrich, Golo and Erika Mann, Franz Werfel and his wife Alma Mahler-Werfel. Alfred Polgar, Hermann Leopoldi, Ödön von Horvath, Anna Seghers, Robert Stolz, Friedrich Torberg, Karl Farkas, Billy Wilder and many more.
Herbert Lackner's book "The Flight of Poets and Thinkers" tells a piece of contemporary history - a topic that has many parallels to today.

Herbert Lackner: The flight of poets and thinkers. How Europe's artists and scientists escaped the Nazis; Ueberreuter, C.; Edition: 1 (15 September 2017)