By Thomas Perle & Clemens Bechtel –– Direction: Clemens Bechtel (a. G.)
Co-production with Jewish State Theater Bucharest
Surtitles: RO/GE/EN
Age limit: 12+
On 26 November 1938, two hand grenades exploded in the auditorium during a performance by the Jewish-Bucovina singer Sidy Thal and her ensemble at the Timisoara Theatre. An anti-Semitic attack by the Iron Guard, a far-right nationalist group, in which four people were killed and seventy injured.
A little-known event in the city of Timișoara/Timișoara, European Capital of Culture 2023, that playwright Thomas Perle and director Clemens Bechtel researched with the help of Maria Mădălina Irimia from the Centre for the Study of Jewish History in Romania "Wilhelm Filderman" in Romania and created a documentary based on it.
What is true? What really happened? It is an attempt to reconstruct the attack and the moment when antisemitism and fascism became part of everyday life in a multicultural society, leading to the horror of World War II and the Shoah.
SIDY THAL is the first cooperation between the German State Theatre Timișoara and the Jewish State Theatre Bucharest.
A multilingual work in Yiddish, German and Romanian.
Surtitles: RO/GE/EN
Age limit: 12+
Duration: 02:00
The project is organized in partnership with the Department of Interethnic Relations of the Government of Romania.