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Cologne - On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of his death, an exhibition in Cologne commemorates the Icelandic Jesuit Father Jón Svensson SJ - called Nonni - (1857-1944). The exhibition in the renovated chapel Sankt Maria Magdalena und Lazarus at the Melatenfriedhof in Cologne shows from 14 September to 20 October 2019 under the title "Nonni. Ein Isländer am Rhein" books and biographies of the writer, in which he tells among other things about his childhood in Iceland ("Nonni und Manni") and which became known in Germany also by film adaptations. There are also impressions of Iceland by the painter Renate Marx, and the stonemason couple Frank Heber/Lea Nicolini will exhibit sculptures inspired by visits to Iceland.

On the 75th anniversary of the death of the Jesuit, 16 October, the Deutsch-Isländische Gesellschaft e.V. Köln meets with other Nonni friends at 4 pm at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne, where a memorial service is held with Father Heribert Graab SJ in the St. Maria Magdalena Chapel; followed by a memorial hour of the Deutsch-Isländische Gesellschaft e.V. at the "Tomb of the Cologne Jesuits". There Nonni was buried in a bombing night in October 1944. The mezzo-soprano Rannveig Sif Sigurdardottir sings Icelandic songs, and Ottmar Fuchs, professor emeritus of practical theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen, talks about "Nonni's hope for a Dawn".

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