As part of a public lecture and discussion series organized by the Center for Advanced Studies Munich, Liliane Weissberg and Michael Brenner (LMU Munich) have presented papers, and discussed, the role of writers and philosophers during the 1918 Munich Revolution and its aftermath. The discussion was moderated by Renate Heitkamp (Bayrischer Rundfunk). The event is now available on line at: https://cast.itunes.uni-muenchen.de/clips/RfqOQA6sEp/vod/online.html