Op zondagmiddag 15 maart gaat Arnon Grunberg weer in gesprek met de Amerikaanse auteur en recensent/journalist Ruth Franklin over haar boek The Many Lives of Anne Frank. De schrijver Yael van der Wouden zal ook aan het gesprek deelnemen. De Balie schrijft over dit programma:

"Anne Frank's diary has come to represent a universal message against hatred and prejudice. Meanwhile, her image has been drawn into widely differing and sometimes controversial political contexts, including comparisons between Jewish suffering during the Holocaust and Palestinian suffering in Gaza today. What is lost when Anne becomes a symbol for many causes at once? How do we balance the universal power of her words with the historical reality of her life as a Jewish girl targeted for extermination by the Nazis?

A conversation about how Anne Frank has been understood, misunderstood, and continually reinterpreted since the publication of her diary. How has her legacy been reshaped in an increasingly divided world, and what does it mean for a life to become a moral symbol?"

Tickets zijn verkrijgbaar via deze link.

Join us, on Sunday, March 15, 2026, for Arnon Grunberg meets Ruth Franklin, in De Balie Amsterdam, one of The Netherlands' foremost venues for contemporary arts, politics and culture. Not for the first time a conversation about her book The Many Lives of Anne Frank. Writer Yael van der Wouden will join the conversation. DeBalie about this program:

"Anne Frank's diary has come to represent a universal message against hatred and prejudice. Meanwhile, her image has been drawn into widely differing and sometimes controversial political contexts, including comparisons between Jewish suffering during the Holocaust and Palestinian suffering in Gaza today. What is lost when Anne becomes a symbol for many causes at once? How do we balance the universal power of her words with the historical reality of her life as a Jewish girl targeted for extermination by the Nazis?

A conversation about how Anne Frank has been understood, misunderstood, and continually reinterpreted since the publication of her diary. How has her legacy been reshaped in an increasingly divided world, and what does it mean for a life to become a moral symbol?"

Tickets are available through this link.