Poets, Spies and the Secret Police

Philip Oltermann and Anne McElvoy will be in conversation with Professor Karen Leeder, on ‘Poets, Spies and the Secret Police’, 5pm Tuesday 17 May (4^th week) in Room 6, Examination Schools. Come along for a fascinating discussion about literature and power in the Cold War and beyond, In English. 

Philip Oltermann is the Guardian's Berlin correspondent 

Anne McElvoy writes for The Economist, London Evening Standard, and regularly appears on the BBC. 

Both have written about East Germany: 

Philip Oltermann, The Stasi Poetry Circle, Faber 2022. 

Anne McElvoy, The Saddled Cow, East Germany's Life and Legacy (Faber 1993); and Man without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster (Jonathan Cape 1997)