Eine Ausstellung für die Ungenannten

Yiddish and Jewish Theater 1887 - 1941 in Berlin

"Many people of Jewish origin who were able to flee from National Socialism have become famous people. But what about the nameless?

The stagehands, the lighting technician, the checkroom attendant?

This exhibition is dedicated to them."

(Klaus Wichmann)

The open-air exhibition provides an insight into Jewish theater life in Berlin up until its extermination by the Gestapo on September 11, 1941. The focus is not on the history of the big stars, but on the people behind and next to the stage who were unable to flee and whose fates often remained in the dark.

The exhibition was developed by Adam Blank-Markard and Judith Kessler under the direction of Klaus Wichmann - former Technical Director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Berliner Ensemble. Historical photographs, announcement posters and portraits of employees, together with literary texts by Franz Kafka, Kurt Tucholsky, Camilla Spira and Paul Celan on nine large-format posters.

Opening on June 13, 6 p.m. - on view continuously until July 20 in the front garden of Kulturvolk | Freie Volksbühne Berlin