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Hilmar Hoffmann
Hilmar Hoffmann, who was born in Bremen in 1925, worked hard for several cultural projects as a cultural aritst and, in the best sense, as cultural functionary. Today he lives in Frankfurt am Main. For 20 years, from 1970 to 1990, he was head of the culture department and culture councillor – the Museumsufer in Frankfurt is his life’s work. Hoffmann is, among others, founder of the international Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, where he also worked as head of the culture department. Additionally, he was president of the Goethe-Institute for nine years. His position »Kultur für alle« (»Culture for everyone«) decisiveley determined the course for an important cultural policy.
Generation Hitlerjungen
Early Memories
- 200 pages
- softcover
978-3-86638-229-9
Hilmar Hoffmann, one of the few important and efficient German cultural politicians, presents his 50th book – it’s a radical step back in his biography as well as in the background of our society. He risks his memories at his time as a boy in the Hitler Youth. »Nothing is riskier than a flashback in the own past«. That’s how he, today over 90 years old, begins. And he talks about the functions of adsorption and indoctrination, how shameless children and teenagers were fed with inhuman and world-disdaining ideologies. Young men and boys were seen as »material«. And how this »material« was burned, Hilmar Hoffmann experienced himself when the Allies landed and his unit of 16 to 18-year-old were the last on their position and first to be ripped to shreds by air bombs in Normandy. During the following captivity his view was cleansed – which is, besides his status as contemporary witness, the actual accomplishment of his book: keeping hope alive with glance at the reflection that follows even the most devastating misconceptions.
