Open in Turinin the medieval court of Palazzo Madama, which can be visited until May 5, 2025, the exhibition Post tour. Primo Levi, Germanie, Europe, promoted by International Center of Primo Levi Studies and edited by
Domenico Scarpa.
Made with largely unpublished documents, Post lap It offers a vast network of private correspondence that only today become public, and which tell Europe and Germany divided into two. To weave the plot are The German interlocutors and Levi Germanophonesbut not only them. The correspondences on display – unknown scribbled messages on makeshift sheets or impeccable machine beaten letters on headed paper – cross almost half a century of European history.
Auschwitz, an experience of which Levi never stopped investigating secrets and meanings, is the geometric fire of the story. If this is a man He played from the title as a question addressed to the reader, but the facts of the book had taken place in German and at the hands of Germans, and therefore to them that question had to arrive. In 1959 the translation of the book into German was finally started, which came out in 1961, the same year in which the Berlin Wall was built. From that moment on, an “intricate epistolary network” put Primo Levi in contact with a large number of remarkable interlocutors: readers and readers 
Municipalities, readers who were also writers, former lager companions, and even someone who was “on the other side” in Auschwitz. Knowing Levi, it is no wonder that among its correspondents they attracted him in particular the most distant for mentality or geography.
In the eighty years from the liberation of Auschwitz (January 27, 1945 – January 27, 2025)the “mail tour” of the title therefore presents itself as a large
Discussion on the Shoah and on its place in a Europe to be reconstructed after the warbut soon divided into two opposing blocks. And it looks like a network for many reasons: because there are mail circuits where the same letter is sent to multiple recipients to solicit them to have their say; Because it covers as a reticulated areas of Germany to the east and west, trespassing in further countries; Because the four languages are intertwined – Italian, French, English and German – used by Levi.
The exhibition – with entrance included in the museum ticket – was created As part of the Levinet projectcoordinated at the University of Ferrara da Martina Mengonicurator of the volume Primo Levi. The correspondence with Heinz Riedt published by Einaudi. The project, financed by the European Research Councilprovides for here to 2027 the progressive publication in Open Access (www.levinet.eu, already active site) of Levi’s “German” correspondences.
The set -up project is by Gianfranco Cavaglià And Anna Rita Bertorello; Ars Media for the graphic and visual communication project.
The exhibition includes five sections: 1. Primo Levi. A early European thoughts; 2. Hermann Langbein. A formidable man; 3. Heinz Riedt. An anomalous German; 4. Post lap (it is the one that gives the title to the entire set -up); 5. Readers and readers. The set -up provides for a accessibility path for the public with visual disabilities: There will be maps and tactile QR-Code, through which it will be possible to access from your mobile device to audio content for each section.
On the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition, the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in collaboration with Poste Italiane has created a dedicated philatelic cancellation: for the day of the inauguration and the subsequent opening day to the public, two officers of Poste Italiane will be happy to affix the stamp on the philatelic postcards also made for the occasion, with the stamp for the occasion, with selected stamp.
Carlo Franza