Felix Nussbaum (play)

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"Felix Nussbaum" is the title of a play about the Osnabrück-born painter Felix Nussbaum by the author and dramaturge Christoph Klimke , which was staged in 2010 by Johann Kresnik as a choreographic theater in Osnabrück . In 19 flashbacks, the play tells Nussbaum's life starting from the place where he died, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . Repeated stations of his life are u. a .: life with his wife, the painter Felka Platek , exile in Belgium , imprisonment in the French internment camp " Saint Cyprien " (officially Camp de concentration de Saint-Cyprien). Some texts reproduce quotations, other scenes are modeled and others are artistically interpreted. The piece ends in the gas chamber.

Kresnik also intentionally shows scenes of physical violence and nudity that can and should shock. It begins in the proscenium with the "Lambeth Walk" of the Nazi henchmen, which can be found as a sheet of music on the last picture, Nussbaum.

Felix Nussbaum (born December 11, 1904 in Osnabrück, † August 2, 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau) was a painter who is now assigned to the New Objectivity . He was persecuted by the NSDAP because of his membership in Judaism. In his hometown of Osnabrück there has been a museum dedicated to Nussbaum since 1998.

For staging

The performers were Matthias Walter (Felix Nussbaum), Andrea Casabianchi (Felka Nussbaum), Steffen Gangloff (SS man) and Laurenz Leky (journalist / SS man / Rudolf Höß ) in the 2010 production in the Theater am Domhof, Osnabrück .

Direction, choreography and stage design: Johann Kresnik
Costumes: Erika Landertinger
Music: James Reynolds
The premiere took place on January 30, 2010

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