Germany - “Guareschi, chronicler and storyteller in Nazi concentration camps”

The Italian Cultural Institute in Stuttgart has organized an online event dedicated to Giovannino Guareschi, writer, journalist and renowned creator of Don Camillo and Peppone.

On Wednesday, 17 February, at 06:00 p.m., Davide Barzi, screenwriter and curator of the comic series Don Camillo a fumetti, and Alberto Guareschi, son of the writer, are the guests of the Zoom conference moderated by journalist Simone Zoppellaro: Guareschi, chronicler and storyteller in Nazi concentration camps.

Giovannino Guareschi (born in 1908 in Fontanelle di Roccabianca, Parma, died in 1908 in Cervia, Ravenna), after refusing to join the Italian Social Republic, was arrested in 1943 and spent two years in the Częstochowa and Beniaminów camps in German-occupied Poland and in the Wietzendorf and Sandbostel camps in Germany.

There, together with some fellow prisoners, making good use of his innate talent as a storyteller, he organized information and entertainment initiatives for the prisoners, like conferences and performances, and also a newspaper, the Bertoldo parlato, that he read passing from hut to hut.

A case now kept in the Guareschi Archive collects the texts and the drawings made by the author during those years of imprisonment. They are a powerful evidence of his courage, his love for freedom, and his resilience.

The event is organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Stuttgart and Emilia Romagna in Stuttgart e.V. Association, in collaboration with Casa Archivio Giovannino Guareschi and Gariwo - Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide, Milan.

• Please click the link below to join the webinar:
  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86013607164