Writing and Resistance - The White Rose Pamphlets: A Live Reading
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- Опубліковано 21 лют 2021
- Supported by TORCH as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme.
Summary:
At around 11am on Thursday 18 February 1943 two students in Munich were arrested for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets. By Monday they had been interrogated, tried, and executed along with another member of the resistance circle. Further arrests followed. From 15-27 February 2021 the White Rose Project will be following the events as they happened in real time through daily posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. This year marks the 78th anniversary of the first White Rose trials. It’s also a year when the dates and days of the week coincide. Imagine going about your normal routine on Monday, being arrested on Thursday, being interrogated over the weekend, and going to trial the following Monday morning.
At the heart of our week is a live reading of the White Rose’s resistance pamphlets, translated from German into English by student members of the White Rose Project. Dr Alex Lloyd (Fellow by Special Election in German, St Edmund Hall) will give a short introduction to the pamphlets. The readers are current and former students and academics, mirroring the membership of the original group: Sophie Caws, Eve Mason, Adam Rebick, Elba Slamecka, Sam Thompson, Amy Wilkinson, and Taylor Professor Emeritus of German Language and Literature, T.J. (Jim) Reed, FBA. The event will open and close with music by the award-winning vocal ensemble SANSARA, recorded on 22 February 2020. This event is supported by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the University of Oxford’s Public Engagement with Research Seed Fund. It is part of the White Rose Project, a research and public engagement initiative bringing the story of the White Rose resistance circle to English-speaking audiences.
English translations of the pamphlets © University of Oxford.
With thanks to Steve Pierce, Film Shed www.filmshed.com/, for filming and editing ‘Voices of the German Resistance’, 22 February 2020.
Max Reger (1873-1916), Nachtlied, Op. 138, n. 3
(Words: Petrus Herbert (1533-1571))
Night has fallen
During which we should rest;
May God grant us to be pious
By his good will
So that we come to set ourselves down
In his company and blessedness,
To take our rest.
Lord, drive far from us
The impure spirits,
Keep the night watch well,
Be our protector;
Shield both body and soul
Under your wings,
Send us your angels!
Let us fall asleep
With good thoughts,
Awaken joyfully
And never waver from you;
Let us through cultivation,
Focus our deeds and our words
On your glory!
For more information on this project please visit: whiteroseproject.org/
So nice that people like this excisted in such a dark time it gives so much hope
Couldn’t be more important at the moment.
Compelling, thank you. And so very important.
I was looking for English translations of the pamphlets to just read on my own, and here I found something even better. Thank you for this wonderful project.
Wonderful.
Thank you for all of your hard work.
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This is such a fantastic project! Thank you.
I've heard the story of the white rose but I never read the actual pamphlets that they tried to distribute. Thanks for the translations, it was very interesting.
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