Book launch: Thomas Muntzer: dramatic depiction of the German Peasants’ War

In 1925, Berta Lask (1878 -1967) wrote a play to mark the 400th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War. In it, she imagines Thomas Müntzer waking up every hundred` years to address the contemporary political situation. Originally staged with hundreds of performers, massed choirs and worker-drama groups, Lask used the play to draw direct parallels with the situation facing the German proletariat in the 1920s. Accused of high treason and sedition under the Weimar Republic, with the rise of the Nazis she was imprisoned and exiled.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the play and the 500th of the Peasants’ War, Rab-Rab press has published Thomas Müntzer, translated into English for the first time by Sam Dolbear in collaboration with Esther Leslie, Joey Simons and Charlotte Thießen.

Join us for the book launch to collectively ask the question: What would Thomas Müntzer find if he woke up today?

Featuring talk from Thomas Müntzer contributors Hannah Proctor, Sam Dolbear and Joey Simons.

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