In the organizer's words:

JEWS JEWS JEWS

BY AND WITH HAMBURGER JEWS:JEWS

Citizens:inside stage of the LICHTHOF Theater

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Duration: approx. 75 minutes

This evening is entertaining, well-paced textually and staged as if on the rails. It is pleasant to see how criticism of the German majority society is presented here without reproach and how the so often invoked communal space is created in the theater.(Elena Philipp, nachtkritik.de, 28.4.24)

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Last June, JUDEN JUDEN JUDEN celebrated a highly acclaimed premiere at the LICHTHOF Theater as part of a festival of the same name. This year, it can be seen not only in Heidelberg in April, where it has been invited to the Heidelberg Stückemarkt 2024, but also in an updated version on the LICHTHOF stage.

Jewish life in Hamburg is brought to life in various narrative strands - as it is today, as it is imagined, as it could be. Anti-Semitic and philo-Semitic clichés are questioned and the ascribed particularity of Judaism is set alongside a Jewish self-image.

Inspired by Stefan Heym's interpretation of Ahasver, the eternally wandering Jew, a polyphonic story is spun. The performers and the team relate their Jewish biographies to the topics dealt with, reinvent themselves and come to unexpected conclusions.

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Director: Ron Zimmering, Dor Aloni / Text: Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner / Stage: Letycia Rossi / Costume: Florian Parkitny / Music: Gil Abramov / Production: Gregory Popov / Sound: Beata Berger / Lighting design: Sönke Christian Herm / Assistance: Regina Stempel, Kairija Heye

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Cast:inside: Virginia Brunnert, Kamila Gambietz, Paul Gorbach, Iryna Kaplan, Eli Kappo, Benjamin-Lew Klon, Alona Konovalchuk, Alexander Polinsky, Adriana Sass, Piotr Schulsinger, Nieli Stauber, Olena Tyshakova

Funded by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the Neustart Kultur program (Back to stage - Deutscher Bühnenverein) and the LICHTHOF Foundation. With the kind support of MIT2WO Kulturnetzwerk.

The revival and updating is supported by the Körber Foundation, the Mara and Holger Cassens Foundation and the LICHTHOF Foundation.

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Content Notes
The text begins by quoting jokes about the Holocaust and partly addresses war and the experience of flight

Awards
The production was invited to the Heidelberg Stückemarkt 2024

Media response to the premiere 2023:

Falk Schreiber, Hamburger Abendblatt, 15.06.2023

Peter Helling, NDR Hamburg Journal, 15.6.2023

Peter Helling, NDR 90,3 Kulturjournal, 15.6.2023

Rehearsal report, Peter Helling, NDR 90,3 Kulturjournal, 5.4.2023

Price information:

Normal price: The normal price is the regular admission price for all visitors to the LICHTHOF Theater. Reduced price: The reduced price is for those visitors who cannot pay the normal price. The LICHTHOF does not require proof at the box office. Minimum price: The minimum price ticket is an additional discount that can be claimed at your own discretion if the reduced price is still too high. Again, the LICHTHOF does not require proof of this at the box office. Solipreis: The Solipreis supports freelance artists in difficult times. Free ticket: If you are dependent on an accompanying person, they will receive a free ticket. Please contact us directly for this: karten@lichthof-theater.de