By Thomas Perle & Clemens Bechtel ––Direction: Clemens Bechtel
Coproduction with The Jewish State Theater Bucharest.
Performance followed by a discussion with the audience.
Duration
Premiere
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Recommended
12+
On 26 November 1938, two hand grenades exploded in the auditorium during a performance by the Jewish-Bucovina singer Sidy Thal and her ensemble at the Timisoara Theatre. An anti-Semitic attack by the Iron Guard, a far-right nationalist group, in which four people were killed and seventy injured.
A little-known event in the city of Timișoara/Timișoara, European Capital of Culture 2023, that playwright Thomas Perle and director Clemens Bechtel researched with the help of Maria Mădălina Irimia from the Centre for the Study of Jewish History in Romania "Wilhelm Filderman" in Romania and created a documentary based on it.
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