Chile | Reading, talk and film screening

17.30-19.00: Reading from the book Salvador Allende. A Chilean History with the author Günther Wessel (Berlin) followed by a discussion

19.00-19.30: Break (with catering)

19.30-21.30: Film „Allende, mi Abuelo Allende“ (2015, 98 min.): In the Fritz Bauer Library we will show the film by director Marcia Tambutti Allende. ATTENTION: Spanish with English subtitles.

Location: Fritz Bauer Forum, Feldmark 107, 44803 Bochum

Registration: We look forward to receiving your registration for the reading and discussion by 6 September 2023 at: magdalena.koehler@buxus-stiftung.de

Reading and talk with Günther Wessel

11 September 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the brutal military coup against Chile’s democratically elected president Salvador Allende. In his book, Günther Wessel tells the biography of Allende and the history of Chile. Since December 2021, a left-wing alliance has once again been in power and the Minister of Defence is Maya Fernández Allende, a granddaughter of Salvador Allende. Is Chile on the brink of a new dawn? In a conversation with the author Günther Wessel, fundamental questions about Chile’s history and the country’s development up to the present day will be explored.

Günther Wessel, born in 1959, studied German and philosophy and has been a freelance author and journalist since 1992. His work has taken him to many different countries in Latin America, the USA and Belgium. He now lives in Berlin. (Photo: hasskarl.de)

Film screening „Allende, mi Abuelo Allende„

In this documentary film, filmmaker Marcia Tambutti Allende, granddaughter of Chilean President Salvador Allende, researches the history of her grandfather in the time before the military coup in 1973. Her search for private moments is not only met with approval by the family, as the personal image of her grandfather was buried by the pain of her family and exile. Marcia cautiously tries to break the decades-long silence.

ATTENTION: The film will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles.

A joint event in the series of the Bochum Alliance „Solidarity and Remembrance“.

Notes:

*Students, trainees, pupils, pensioners, severely disabled people (degree of disability of at least 50) and people who receive unemployment benefit, social assistance, basic income support or benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act receive reduced admission on presentation of the relevant certificate.

**Soli-price: If you would like to pay a little more, you can choose the soli-price and thus help to finance admission for those who have less money at their disposal. If you would like to make use of the solidarity fund, please contact us at the event or in advance.