Daniela Dahn
Was man (nicht) wußte
[What Was Known, and What Wasn’t]
What were the blind spots in the GDR’s anti-fascism? What was known in the GDR about the Holocaust and the Second World War? How were victims and heroes remembered differently, and why? How was this reflected in literature and other narratives of the war (film, theatre, television)? And above all: how was official anti-fascism experienced by the population?
Daniela Dahn, born in Berlin, studied journalism in Leipzig. In 1981, she resigned from her post as a television journalist and has since worked as a freelance writer and journalist. In 1989, she was a founding member of the “Demokratischer Aufbruch” (Democratic Awakening). She has held several visiting lectureships in the USA and the UK. To date, 14 books of her essays have been published by Rowohlt, most recently Der Schlaf der Vernunft. Über Kriegsklima, Nazis und Fakes (The Sleep of Reason: On the Climate of War, Nazis and Fakes) (2024). Among her awards include the Kurt Tucholsky Prize and the Ludwig Börne Prize.