Culture in Dresden Waurich"). Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" describes the bombing of Dresden in February 1945 seen from a slaughterhouse near the old city of Dresden. Vonnegut was prisoner of war in Dresden during that event. Contemporary novelists who are active in Dresden include Uwe Tellkamp and Ingo Schulze. Both broach up the theme of "Mythos Dresden". Tellkamp is known for his novel "Der Turm" ("The Tower") plotting the life of an academic family in its educated social environment (ivory tower society) of Dresden in the last seven years of former East Germany. Dresden's heterogeneous cityspace strongly influences the lifestyle of the city.
Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden demonstration in Dresden, by 2010 this had grown to a "week of action" in which Nazis handed out leaflets and did little agit-prop actions. Thus in the following years Dresden had one small demonstration on the evening of 13 February or a day before organized by the "Freie Kräfte" and a big demonstration organized by the JLO on 13 February or the next Saturday or Sunday if 13 February was not on a weekend. On the radical left, political and ideological infighting between one faction then dominating in Dresden, the "Anti-Germans" and anti-imperialist and other anti-fascists, divided and preoccupied the