Friday, 12/13/2024
at 7:30 PM


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In a Viennese homeless asylum, the Jewish bookseller Schlomo Herzl falls into the arms of a rude young man who has traveled from Braunau am Inn and is named Hitler. Schlomo lovingly and devotedly takes care of the newcomer. He lends him his only winter coat, gives him a distinctive beard cut, and does not hold back with practical life advice. When Hitler is certified as hopelessly artistically incapable in his application to the art academy, he turns his gaze toward a political career. A demagogue emerges, who abuses Schlomo's loving care, forms a personal alliance with death, and brutally finds his first victim in Schlomo.

George Tabori (1914-2007) connects deep pain with philosophical wisdom and unshakable Jewish humor in his play, which premiered in Vienna in 1987, against the backdrop of the Shoah and the centuries-long ongoing antisemitic pogroms in an unparalleled, touching way.

Translation by Ursula
Grützmacher-Tabori

Directed by: Bettina Jahnke
Stage & Costumes: Dorit Lievenbrück
Music: Achim Gieseler

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