Events › Langara Community Lectures: Finding Hope

Topic: Finding Hope in Catastrophe: The Cases of Grimmelshausen and Grass

Speaker: Dr Stefan Haag, instructor in English

The seventeenth century Thirty Years’ War was a national catastrophe for Germany, leading to large-scale devastation and massive population decline. Yet twenty years after the war, Grimmelshausen published a tongue-in-cheek picaro novel that was steeped in powerful language to communicate to the world that Germany was back. Closer to our time, Günter Grass used Grimmelshausen to reflect on what another catastrophic war could mean for Germany. In this talk we will look at what both writers try to take away from the national catastrophes they lived through.

Presented in partnership with the Langara College.

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• The theatre has 74 fixed seats that are 17.5" wide, and three wheelchair accessible spaces
• Noise level is expected to be low/moderate
• Lighting will be low/moderate 

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