Torkil Sørensen lectures on author Martin Andersen Nexø and his important efforts for German-Danish relations during a turbulent political period.
Nexø stayed in Munich 1917-1918, where he met artists and activists who later became central to Bavaria's short-lived left-wing republic. After being active on the Danish left until 1923, Nexø settled in Germany, where he gradually returned to social democratic ideals. When Nazism took hold in Germany in 1933, Nexø became a prominent advocate for mainly communist refugees. In 1936 he took over the chairmanship of Red Aid, and the following year became a member of the Communist Party of Denmark. During World War II, he first sought refuge in Sweden and later in the Soviet Union, before eventually settling in Dresden in East Germany, where he reunited with German comrades in exile.
The lecture is arranged by the Martin Andersen Nexø Society. Society members receive free admission; others pay 50 kroner at the entrance.
