Reading + Talk

Stefan Weidner ANTI-PEGIDA. A POLEMIC!

Getting on our soapboxes won’t help us to understand and to stand up to the Pegida movement. Pegida has a prehistory that reaches the depths of our society. The opinions represented by the movement have been spread by the media in Germany over preceding years and anticipated by notable intellectuals and authors: Thilo Sarrazin, Alice Schwarzer, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Ralph Giordano, Monika Maron, Günter Wallraff, Necla Kelek, Henryk M. Broder, Hamed Abdel-Samad, Dan Diner, and Tilman Nagel are some of the most well known. The polemic from Stefan Weidner reveals how ideals of reason, freedom, and democracy have been abused for years to create an atmosphere against Muslims living in the country, which eventually leads to open racism.

Author Stefan Weidner presents his book, moderated by Christian Werthschulte.