Roswitha Quadflieg — reflections and reading from two diaries: 1936 and 1946 — Samuel Beckett and Will Quadflieg
Two books from RQ are the basis of this evening:
“Beckett was here” (2006 Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg) and „Ich will lieber schweigen. Das Tagebuch eines Schauspielers 1945/46 und die Fragen seiner Tochter“ (2025 Kanon, Berlin).
A comparison of these texts reveals two very different attitudes towards the Nazis – one before and the other after the Second World War. Recorded in notebooks and pocket calendars of two young men, safe in their coats. Two men who wrote cultural history in their own way.
Welcome and introduction: Barbara Stang
Roswitha Quadflieg
Roswitha Quadflieg, born in Zurich, studied painting, graphics, illustration and typography in Hamburg and worked from 1973 — 2003 as a book artist and publisher in her own Raamin-Presse publishing workshop in Schenefeld on the outskirts of Hamburg. Here she printed works of world literature with her own original graphics in limited editions. Awards, exhibitions, purchases worldwide. She has also been a writer since 1985, exclusively since 2003. She writes novels, plays and radio plays. She now lives in Berlin.
Most recently published (selection): „Ich will lieber schweigen“ (Kanon), „Ein Mann seiner Zeit“, „Ihr Wart doch meine Feinde“, (Faber& Faber), „Das kurze Leben des Giuseppe M.“ (Transit), „Neun Monate. Über das Sterben meiner Mutter“ (Aufbau).
