Stefan Aust: Shaping History: "The Baader Meinhof Complex"
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, December 1, 2009 | 7:00PM - 9:00PM | External Event, Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto, ON |
Description
7 pm: Stefan Aust (Editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel, 1994-2008; author of the book & co-author of the screenplay The Baader Meinhof Complex. Host of the talk & public discussion: Russell Smith, author and journalist The Globe and Mail
8:45 pm: film screening The Baader Meinhof Complex
Please register for the discussion and the film screening separately. Registration: office@toronto.goethe.org
Stefan Aust was born on July 7th 1946 in Stade (Lower Saxony/Germany). He studied Sociology, then worked as an editorial journalist for the newspaper “St. Pauli Nachrichten” and the magazine “konkret”. He took on the office of editor-in-chief of “Spiegel TV” in 1988. From 1994-2008, he was editor-in-chief of the magazine “Der Spiegel.” Beyond this, he has gained a high degree of popularity as the author of numerous books and also as the author and director of documentaries and feature films. Topics include: the activities of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Federal Intelligence Service, the political and psychological motivations of squatters, the Iraq war, the RAF-terror, international terrorism, the legacy of the Third Reich, and – as in his latest publication “Deutschland, Deutschland. Expedition durch die Wendezeit” – the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification process. Thus, Stefan Aust has taken part in the shaping of the journalistic landscape of Germany to a high degree and has been awarded the “Goldene Feder” and the “Goldene Kamera” for his achievements in the field of journalism.
Russell Smith was born in Johannesburg in 1963 and made himself a name as a journalist, radio-host and author of novels, poetry and short fiction. In his column “Virtual Culture” for “The Globe and Mail”, he skillfully fuses literary and journalistic genres. Amongst others, he has published for “The New York Review of Books”, “Details”, “Travel and Leisure”, “Toronto Life”, “EnRoute” and “Toro”. The range of his journalistic interest is at once broad and dazzling and includes white South African life, fashion & lifestyle, literary life and nightlife. In the radio-show “And sometimes Y”, which he hosted from 2006-2007, he dealt with linguistic topics. Russell Smith is currently the editor of the online men’s magazine “XYYZ”. He has won the National Magazine Award for Fiction as well as the White Award
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