In the organizer's words:

The "Messiah of the survivors" - thoroughly forgotten!

Do you know Philipp Auerbach? The successful entrepreneur survived Auschwitz and was appointed by the Americans in Munich in 1945 as "State Commissioner for Racially, Politically and Religiously Persecuted Persons". For many, he was a kind of "messiah" who helped Jewish survivors to emigrate to Israel. At the same time, he wanted to re-establish Jewish life in Germany. Auerbach's life ended tragically: his office was closed, a Munich court convicted him of corruption and embezzlement of state funds in 1952 and Auerbach committed suicide. He was rehabilitated two years later. And thoroughly forgotten!

Avishai Milstein, born in Tel Aviv in 1964, distils true and invented encounters from Auerbach's hard-won existence with unsparing black humor and confronts us with our own failures and forgetfulness in his memoir revue. In a near future in which there is virtually no Jewish life left in Germany, but also no theaters, an anti-Semitism commissioner rehearses an "Auerbach memorial revue". The rehearsal gets out of hand when the leading actor reveals himself to be Jewish and refuses to stick to the script intended for him.

Fulminant live music, an ensemble that plays its heart out and an author who chases us into our own abysses: "What went wrong with the Jews in Germany? Why are they no longer there?"

They are back. Everywhere.
The nefarious executioners of souls
You can hear the humiliated everywhere
clamouring for dignity and honor,
The defeated claim the future!

- Song from "Play Auerbach!", Avishai Milstein