Die Formel des Widerstands

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Reading and background information with the author Astrid Viciano:

Shortly before Hitler's seizure of power in 1933, the young scientist Wolfgang Gentner and his French colleague Frédéric Joliot-Curie meet at the Institut du Radium in Paris. It was a time of groundbreaking discoveries in physics, from Albert Einstein to Marie Curie. Gentner researches artificial radioactivity together with Curie's daughter Irène and her husband Frédéric.

In 1940, Gentner returned to Paris on behalf of the German uranium project. He was to supervise Joliot-Curie's research and provide the Nazis with important findings for the construction of the atomic bomb. But his French colleague begins to work undercover for the Resistance, and his laboratory becomes the center of the Resistance. Gentner apparently cooperates with the Nazis, constantly coming up with new pretexts to prevent the Germans from entering the laboratory and to secure the release of French resistance fighters from the clutches of the Waffen SS - a double game in which Gentner risks everything and saves the lives of his friends several times over.

Munich-based non-fiction author and science reporter Astrid Viciano will read from her latest non-fiction book and provide an insight into her extensive research work.

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