The lecture “From Nazi Germany to the present day: a family history” will be held on Friday 10th May at the reference library centre, managed by the Directorate General of Culture of the Regional Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports.

Palma Public Library “Can Sales”

Next Friday the 10th of May, at 6:30 pm, the Palma Public Library “Can Sales” will host the lecture “From Nazi Germany to today: a family history”, by the writer Ricardo Dudda. This is another lecture in the second edition of the Biblioteca de Escritores (Writers’ Library), a series of meetings and debates between readers and writers that encourages reflection on the craft of writing and the creative process. On this occasion, the writer was invited by the coordinator of the library’s reading club, Maria José García Mulas. Last January, the group discussed the reading of Mi padre alemán, Dudda’s latest work, and proposed inviting the author to find out more about his story and his writing process.

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Palma Public Library “Can Sales”

Ricardo Dudda (Madrid, 1992) is a journalist and editor. He is a member of the editorial staff of the magazine Letras libres and a columnist for El País and The Objective. He is the author of La verdad de la tribu. Political correctness and its enemies (2019). With Mi padre alemán (Libros del Asteroide, 2023) he is a finalist for the II Premio de No-Ficción Libros del Asteroide. In this book, Dudda investigates and reconstructs the childhood and youth of his father, who left his home in Prussia after the Second World War and survived in refugee camps for a decade. It is a gripping story in which the author combines biography, essay and narrative non-fiction, and is also a long conversation between a father and son about the past, uprootedness, guilt, old age and death.

In this Friday’s lecture, the writer will talk about family history in the context of Nazi Germany and its influence up to the present day. He will explore themes of identity and inheritance through family history, highlighting how he and his father grapple with the legacy of a past marked by the Second World War, and will address ethical issues related to the telling of family stories. The biographical research and writing process will also be discussed, revealing how Dudda gathered information about his family’s history and transformed this data into a coherent and moving literary work.