Charlie English

Hitler, psychiatric patients and modern art: an untold chapter of German history. Charlie English passes on the tragic life stories of the artists in the Prinzhorn Collection who were diagnosed with schizophrenia and subjected to the Nazi extermination mania. With its gripping narrative and excellent research, it closes another gap in the reappraisal of the Nazi era.

Charlie English is a British journalist and author; he most recently worked as editor-in-chief of the foreign desk at the Guardian and has written three highly acclaimed non-fiction books: The Gallery of Miracles and Madness (2021), The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu (2017) and The Snow Tourist (2008). He lives in London.

Language: English

The lecture will be followed by a discussion with Thomas Röske, museum director of the Prinzhorn Collection.

In cooperation with the Prinzhorn Collection of Heidelberg University Hospital. The event is part of the exhibition “People who could still have lived ” ̶ Victims of National Socialism .