{"id":4196,"date":"2019-10-03T14:42:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/als-die-nacht-sich-senkte"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:00:37","slug":"as-the-night-descended","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/als-die-nacht-sich-senkte","title":{"rendered":"As the night fell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Herbert Lackner and Michael K\u00f6hlmeier in dialogue<\/strong>h<\/p>\n

As the night fell<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"People never came to the great evil with one big step, but with many small ones, each of which seemed too small for a great outrage. First they say, then they do.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

Herbert Lackner begins his new book with this quote from a speech by the writer Michael K\u00f6hlmeier at the Day of Remembrance against Violence and Racism in May 2018.
\nHe accompanies Albert Einstein, Bertolt Brecht, Franz Werfel, Alma Mahler, Elias Canetti, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Stefan Zweig, Oskar Kokoschka and many others through the dramatic years between the First and Second World Wars. And describes what the small steps that led to the great catastrophe of the 20th century looked like and how they were perceived by the most important authors, composers, philosophers, scientists and publicists of their time.
\nWhy were the fire signals not taken seriously, why were brute racists, rioters and rabble-rousers underestimated until it was too late? Who fertilised the soil for these excesses?<\/p>\n

Greeting:
\nFranz Vranitzky<\/strong>, Former Federal Chancellor, Founding and Honorary President of the Bruno Kreisky Forum<\/p>\n

Conversation:
\nHerbert Lackner<\/strong>, political scientist and publicist, former editor-in-chief of the news magazine profil, author of numerous articles on contemporary history in profil and Die Zeit
\nand
\nMichael K\u00f6hlmeier<\/strong>, author and storyteller who has received numerous Austrian and international awards for his novels, stories and radio plays.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Erst wird gesagt, dann wird getan.\u201c Mit diesem Zitat aus einer Rede des Schriftstellers Michael K\u00f6hlmeier beim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4197,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[43],"class_list":["post-4196","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schwerpunkt-internationale-politik-europa-und-sicherheit","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nALS DIE NACHT SICH SENKTE - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/event\/as-the-night-descended\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ALS DIE NACHT SICH SENKTE - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Herbert Lackner und Michael K\u00f6hlmeier im Gespr\u00e4ch ALS DIE NACHT SICH SENKTE   "Zum gro\u00dfen B\u00f6sen kamen die Menschen nie mit einem gro\u00dfen Schritt, sondern mit vielen kleinen, von denen jeder zu klein schien f\u00fcr eine gro\u00dfe Emp\u00f6rung. 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