Friday, 12/20/2024
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In a Vienna homeless shelter, the Jewish bookseller Schlomo Herzl finds himself in the arms of a crude young man who has traveled from Braunau am Inn and is named Hitler. Schlomo takes care of the newcomer with patience and dedication. He lends him his only winter coat, gives him a distinctive beard trim, and does not hold back on practical life advice. When Hitler is deemed hopelessly artistically incompetent in his application to the Academy of Fine Arts, he turns his gaze towards a political career. A demagogue is maturing, who abuses Schlomo's loving care, aligns himself personally with death, and brutally finds his first victim in Schlomo.

George Tabori (1914-2007) uniquely combines profound pain with philosophical wisdom and unshakeable Jewish humor in his play, first performed in Vienna in 1987, against the backdrop of the Holocaust and the centuries-long persistent antisemitic pogroms.

Translation by Ursula
Grützmacher-Tabori

Director: Bettina Jahnke
Stage & Costumes: Dorit Lievenbrück
Music: Achim Gieseler

Event data provided by: Reservix

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