A documentary theater project about Jewish refugees in Salzburg 1945-1947 in German, Hebrew and English,  funded by the city and province of Salzburg. 

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It is a piece of forgotten Salzburg town history: the imposing building in Paris-Lodron-Str. 9, formerly Franz-Josefs-Kaserne, today the seat of the Thomas Bernhard Institute for Acting and Directing at the University of Mozarteum, was a Jewish refugee camp from 1945-1947: "Camp Herzl". 

Up to 2,000 refugees were accommodated there, waiting for the opportunity to leave: to South America, to the USA and - illegally - to Palestine. They were part of a gigantic stream of refugees, which led hundreds of thousands in search of a new home through Salzburg. Fleeing from Europe.

 

Austrian, German and Israeli students of the Mozarteum and the University of Tel Aviv have followed in the footsteps of the former refugees and have spoken with numerous contemporary witnesses in Austria and Israel. The journey into the 70 years past post-war period also led to their own family stories. The result is a polyphonic personal piece of contemporary history, an evening about false and real weddings, changing identities, fake papers, illegal border crossings, true friendship and collective forgetting.

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CREATIVE TEAM

Artistic direction:  

Christine Umpfenbach

Dedi Baron

Paul Brodowsky

Christoph Lepschy

 

Performers and co-creators: 

Ealeal Semel, Anton Andreew, Tobias Artner, Nuphar Barkol, Zeynep Bozbay,

Asaf Hameiri, Yael Katzman, Yaara Lokits, Gadi Magram, Anna-Maria Rieser,

Julius Schulte, Lee Shati ​​​​