“Who won’t betray us in the end?”
Theater becomes the last cultural resort
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Berlin
As German Jews were getting arrested or being forced to leave the country, the performances put on by the local branches of the Jewish Kulturbund (Culture Association) were among the few places of refuge where Jews could enjoy culture as in earlier days. Among other things, in the winter season of 1937/1938 the Jüdischer Kulturbund Berlin performed Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Director: Dr. Kurt Singer) and Scribe’s The Ladies’ Battle (Director: Fritz Wisten). Since 1935, the Kulturbund’s venue had been the theater at 57 Kommandantenstrasse, the former Herrnfeld Theater, where popular Jewish plays had once been staged.
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Institution:
Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin
Collection:
Kulturbundbühne (Berlin): Kulturbund deutscher Juden, MF B1080
Original:
Vol. 6, no. 1: 3
