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Screenwriter David Hare, scholar Deborah Lipstadt discuss Denial

January 26, 2017 - Eric Colleary

Screenwriter David Hare, scholar Deborah Lipstadt discuss Denial

In 1996, Holocaust denier David Irving sued scholar Deborah Lipstadt on the grounds of libel for her book Denying the Holocaust (Penguin, 1993). The case went to court in the United Kingdom, where Lipstadt and her legal team found themselves having to legally prove that the Nazis had systematically exterminated millions of people.

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Lipstadt’s story has become the basis of Denial, a recent film by acclaimed stage and screenwriter David Hare, who mined details from courtroom transcripts and Lipstadt’s later account of the trial, History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier. At the heart of the story is a look into why, when faced with extraordinary evidence to the contrary, people deny that historical events took place. The film has been nominated for Outstanding British Film by the British Academy Film Awards.

 

The Ransom Center holds David Hare’s archive. Hare is the award-winning writer of plays such as The Judas Kiss, Plenty, Skylight, and Stuff Happens, and his screenwriting credits include Wetherby, The Hours, and The Corrections. His memoirs, The Blue Touch Paper, were published in 2015 by Faber and Faber.

 

Join Deborah Lipstadt and David Hare on Tuesday, March 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Blanton Museum of Art auditorium for a discussion of their collaboration and the critical questions that Lipstadt’s case raises. Robert Abzug, Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, leads the conversation. This free event is co-sponsored by the Harry Ransom Center and the Gale Lecture of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.

 

Eric Colleary is the Cline Curator of Theatre and Performing Arts at the Harry Ransom Center.

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film Tagged With: David Irving, Deborah Lipstadt, Denial, Denying the Holocaust, History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, holocaust, libel, Plenty, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, screenwriting, Skylight, Stuff Happens, The Blue Touch Paper, The Corrections, The Hours, The Judas Kiss, Wetherby

About Eric Colleary

Colleary oversees research, access, and interpretation of the Ransom Center’s theater and performing arts materials.

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