The Wartburg Festival of 1817

Activity: Talk or presentation typesPublic talk, debate, discussion

Description

2017: 500 years since Luther’s 95 Theses, but also 200 years since the procession of nationalist students – the rebels of their day – to the Wartburg, and one of the early book-burnings of German history. A tour through the castle’s significance for Luther, in the early days of German nationalism, and since.
Period7 Feb 2017
Held atBristol Anglo-German Society, United Kingdom