Performance STOLPERSTEINE STAATSTHEATER

December 16, 2107 at 16.00 and 20.00
Riga, Dailes theatre small stage, Brīvības iela 75
Duration 2h, no interval
In German with Latvian translation

In the performance “Stolpersteine Staatstheater”, using devices of documentary theatre, Hans-Werner Kroesinger and dramaturg Regine Dura approach a dark chapter in the history of Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, reviewing many layers in the discrimination of Jewish employees of the theatre during the Nazi-regime.

The title Stolpersteine refers to an art project by German artist Gunter Demnig which “commemorates the victims of national socialism, keeping alive the memory of all Jews, Roma and Sinti, homosexuals, dissidents, Jehovah’s witnesses and victims of euthanasia who were deported and exterminated”. “Stolpersteine” (tripping stones or stumbling blocks) are cobblestone-sized and carry an engraved brass plate that shows the name and biographical facts of the person it commemorates. Usually Demnig inserts the Stolperstein into the pavement surface right in front of the last self-chosen home of the victim.
In Karlsruhe we find two Stolpersteine in front of the building of the Staatstheater – one in memory of actor Paul Gemmecke and the other for opera soubrette Lilly Jankelowitz who were both part of the theatre’s company in 1933.

Tickets 15 eur (reduced price 10 eur for students, pupils, seniors, people with disabilities) on sale at Biļešu paradīze ticket outlets and www.bilesuparadize.lv

The guest performance in Riga is organised by the New Theatre Institute of Latvia in co-operation with Goethe-Institute Riga. The project is made possible with the support of Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.

More info: http://theatre.lv/uncategorized/stolpersteine-staatstheater/

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