Literature
Usedom Literature Days: Codes from Peenemünde
Wednesday, 15/04/2026 / 07:30 PM - 09:15 PM /
Usedom Literature Days: Codes from Peenemünde
Bestselling author Steffen Kopetzky in conversation with Manfred Osten
A British spy, a trail of codes, whispers and inconspicuous suitcases - while the future of the world is being calculated in the background. Steffen Kopetzky's espionage bestseller "Atom" unfolds a gripping story about the struggle for the first atomic bomb in the shadow of the Cold War: Usedom and Peenemünde appear as sites of V1 and V2 weapons production, linked to Hans Kammler and Wernher von Braun - whose brother Sigismund was ambassador to Paris in 1970, just as Manfred Osten was completing his attaché training there.
Kopetzky, who grew up in a divided Germany, interweaves scientific precision with breathtaking suspense. Supplemented by eyewitness accounts in conversation with the cultural historian Manfred Osten, it becomes more than just a reading - a literary laboratory on power, responsibility and the upheavals from the 20th century to the present day.
- Tickets at the tourist information offices
- at www.usedomerliteraturtage.de
- at www.reservix.de
- on 038378 34647
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