Two of our authors will be presenting their books in the coming weeks: Frank Brunner will be reading from \u201eMit aller H\u00e4rte\u201c in Waiblingen, and Raphael Thelen will be reading from \u201eStra\u00dfe der Tr\u00e4ume \u2013 Ein Roadtrip auf der B96\u201c in Berlin.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nReading and Lecture: With All Due Severity. How Police and State Security Hunt Left-Wing Radicals<\/strong><\/p>\n Frank Brunner (Author) and Oliver Rast (left-wing activist)<\/strong><\/p>\n Monday, May 14, 2018, 8 PM, Kulturhaus Schwanen, Waiblingen<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201eWith All Due Force\u201c is the story of a hunt. For years, the BKA (Federal Criminal Police Office) and the BfV (Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution) have been tracking the \u201emilitante gruppe\u201c (militant group), a secret organization of anarchists challenging the state with attacks on police, Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces), and other government facilities. The domestic intelligence service monitors telephones and email accounts, installs GPS trackers in cars, and places hidden cameras opposite building entrances. At times, surveillance teams follow suspects almost around the clock.<\/p>\n But the wrong people are in their sights. Investigators are spying on left-wing activists without any initial suspicion. Only by chance do they get on the trail of the real perpetrators. Frank Brunner reconstructs the duel between the state and its enemies using police files, intelligence analyses, interviews with witnesses, and research from the trial against the radical leftists.<\/p>\n Organizer: Zeitenspiegel Reports and Kulturhaus Schwanen<\/p>\n Frank Brunner<\/strong> is a political scientist and journalist. He worked for various Berlin daily newspapers and \u201eSpiegel Online.\u201c In 2014, he was co-author of the book \u201eGeheimsache NSU\u201c (Kl\u00f6pfer & Meyer), in 2015 a guest lecturer at the Institute for Media Studies at the University of T\u00fcbingen, and in 2016 a guest editor at the South Tyrolean political magazine \u201eff\u201c in Bolzano. He is currently an author in the \u201eStern\u201c office in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg and a member of the Zeitenspiegel Reportagen agency.<\/p>\n Oliver Rast<\/strong> is a bookseller and antiquarian. In 2009, the Berlin Regional Court sentenced him to several years in prison for membership in the \u201emilitant group.\u201c In the Berlin-Tegel correctional facility, Rast founded the Prisoners' Union, which advocates for a minimum wage for working inmates and their inclusion in the pension system. In 2016, the Humanist Union of Germany awarded the Fritz Bauer Prize for Human Rights to the Prisoners' Union.<\/p>\n