The Castle of Writers

Erich Kästner was in Nuremberg, as were Erika Mann, John Dos Passos and Martha Gellhorn, Willy Brandt and Markus Wolf. Augusto Roa Bastos came from Paraguay, Xiao Qian from China. In the courtroom they looked the criminals in the face, and in the press camp at the castle they tried to put the unsayable into words. The microcosm of Faber Castle brought together Holocaust survivors, people returning from exile, communists, representatives of Western media organisations, war correspondents and flamboyant star reporters. And the experience of looking into the abyss of history as they reflected on guilt, sin and justice, not only changed them as people but also changed the way they wrote.

*A unique gathering of writers, journalists and reporters

*Erika Mann, Erich Kästner, Willy Brandt, John Dos Passos, Martha Gellhorn and many others

*When world literature met world history – the summit at Faber-Castell Castle