Zwischen den Fronten. Gerhard Nebels Kriegstagebücher 1942–1945 Lesung und Gespräch mit Michael Zeller

In the organizer's words:

When the name Gerhard Nebel (1903-1974) is mentioned today, literary enthusiasts are most likely to associate him with Ernst Jünger. Nebel knew Jünger well and their extensive correspondence was published in 2003. Nebel, who studied classical philology, was also known to Heinrich Böll, for example, who met the idiosyncratic language lover in the late 1930s when he was working as a secondary school teacher in Cologne and elsewhere. Nebel, always controversial, made no secret of his dislike of the Nazi regime, which repeatedly got him into serious trouble. This was also the case after he was called up to the air force in 1941 at the age of 37. His work as an interpreter in occupied Paris - where he met the occupying officer Jünger again - ended abruptly after he once again made overly careless statements against those in power. Nebel was transferred several times, had to serve on the occupied British Channel Island of Alderney and later in occupied Italy, where he saw the end of the war in May 1945. He constantly kept a diary - an intellectual and accomplished author who recorded internal views of the German dictatorship.

Michael Zeller, himself a well-known and award-winning author, has rescued Gerhard Nebel's extraordinary war diaries from oblivion by launching a new edition of selected passages. He will read selected passages from it and introduce the author Gerhard Nebel.

As part of the event series "80 years since the end of the war in Europe"