Critical Cabaret
Eric Kurlander: Hitler's and Today's Monsters

Following the inauguration of Donald Trump as the new US President, with the help of the world's richest man, Elon Musk, we are witnessing an even stronger alliance between politics and technology, which jointly create a fertile ground for various conspiracy theories and the global rise of fascism. 

The next Critical Cabaret guest at Cankarjev dom is the American historian Eric Kurlander, whose book Hitler's Monsters is more relevant than ever. As a great expert on contemporary German history, Kurlander has spent years exploring the Nazi preoccupation with the supernatural, the occult and the esoteric, which provided the underlying ideology of the Third Reich and the basis for its establishment.  

Eric Kurlander teaches history at Stetson University in Florida and holds a PhD from Harvard University. In addition to Hitler's Monsters, Kurlander is an acclaimed author of The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898–1933 and Living with Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich. He has published scholarly articles in some of the world's major periodicals, has received grants from many esteemed institutions, and several accolades for his achievements as an educator.

In conversation with Srećko Horvat, Eric Kurlander will touch upon many hitherto unknown, under-researched and startling historical facts about the true nature and influence of conspiracy theories, the occult and the esoteric in Nazi ideology. 

Given the current state of our world, crises aggravated by tectonic shifts in politics and social networks, this past is repeating itself to haunt us not in the future, but in the present. These are some of the issues raised by the exciting new season of Critical Cabaret, a Cankarjev dom series curated by Patricija Maličev and Srećko Horvat.