Public comic reading by Hannah Brinkmann M. A. (Illustrator, Hamburg)

Public comic reading by Hannah Brinkmann M. A. (illustrator, Hamburg) with discussion as part of the interdisciplinary workshop "Grafisches Erzählen. Contemporary Witnessing in Comics"

"First-degree half-breeds" - this is what children with one Jewish parent were called under the Nuremberg Race Laws. Ernst Grube was one of them. His family was in a constant struggle for survival during the Nazi regime. In early 1945, he was deported as a boy on one of the last transports to Theresienstadt and finally liberated by the Red Army. After the war, Ernst Grube became involved in the communist movement in West Germany. In the 1950s, he was convicted and imprisoned for his political activities. Before the Federal Court of Justice, Ernst Grube faces the judge Kurt Weber, once First Public Prosecutor under the Nazis. He is a representative of a judiciary whose anti-communism led to disproportionate sentences in the still young Federal Republic. The lives of the two are contrasted in a virtuoso manner.

Hannah Brinkmann studied graphic storytelling in Hamburg and Tel Aviv as well as Fine Arts & Humanities in London, she was a 2024 Comic Scholarship Holder of the German Literature Fund and received the first Dortmund Comic Prize in 2025 for her debut "Gegen mein Gewissen" (2020).

Moderation: Professor Dr. Gudrun Heidemann