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Best-selling author reads “Homage to Sophie Scholl” in Bad Tölz

2021-07-31T11:07:42.251Z


Journalist and Spiegel bestselling author Tim Pröse gave a reading on the resistance fighters of the "White Rose" in the Tölzer Vitalzentrum on the occasion of Sophie Scholl's 100th birthday.


Journalist and Spiegel bestselling author Tim Pröse gave a reading on the resistance fighters of the "White Rose" in the Tölzer Vitalzentrum on the occasion of Sophie Scholl's 100th birthday.

Bad Tölz

- On Sophie Scholl and the resistance of the "White Rose" against the Nazi regime - how can you make people aware of this issue again? The journalist and Spiegel bestselling author Tim Pröse succeeds in doing this with his reading “Hommage to Sophie Scholl”, with which he went on a trip on her 100th birthday this year. He also made a stop at the Tölzer Vitality Center, at the invitation of the Georg von Vollmar Academy in Kochel.

The historian Ulrike Haerendel from the Bundeswehr University supported him in the discussion.

Sophie Scholl's sister, Inge Aicher-Scholl, entrusted Pröse with personal notes: “Memories of Munich”, in which she had recorded the last hours and encounters with her siblings.

In doing so, the author succeeded in establishing emotional closeness to the resistance fighters.

He relied on "feeling", as he explained at the beginning, instead of stringing together historical data.

And with that, the act of liberation and the tragedy of the members of the “White Rose” became clear.

Emotional closeness to the resistance fighters

Furthermore, there were descriptions of how parents and children said goodbye to each other and how lonely the funeral was because Nazi informers guarded the cemetery in order to arrest accomplices.

Pröse also played songs over and over again, including one by Konstantin Wecker about the “White Rose” with the verse: “It was about doing and not about winning.” In this sense, Pröse turned against the appropriation of Sophie Scholl by the lateral thinking scene: “In terms of content, it's a completely different approach.

The lateral thinkers pursue their own goals.

Sophie Scholl was never concerned with personal goals. "

Pröse tries to reach the young people

Pröse also reads in schools and is repeatedly confronted with anti-Semitism there. “It comes from the families of these students,” says the author. He tries to reach these young people emotionally by, for example, telling them the idea of ​​not having discussions in an airy auditorium, but in a windowless, low room, crammed full of people with no prospect of liberation.

Pröse not only portrayed 18 resistance fighters in his book “Witnesses of the Century”, but also got to know and accompanied some personally.

At his Tölz reading, for example, he reported on a survivor of the Shoah, with whom he had a cure in Bad Reichenhall at his request.

The senior once looked out from his deck chair in the sun at Obersalzberg, Hitler's private domicile.

Pröse pointed out to him, to which the contemporary witness replied calmly: “So what?

He's dead. I'm alive. "

These reports, which Pröse scattered in the discussion with the audience after the reading, made the evening so special.

(Birgit Botzenhart)

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Source: merkur

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