Kempten - “The Jewess and the Cardinal” puts Leo Hiemer's new play about the role of the Catholic Church in the Third Reich in a modern media environment.
The theater in Kempten (T: K) is opening the 2021/22 drama subscription with this world premiere on Tuesday, October 26th. Leo Hiemer's documentary work places director and theater director Silvia Armbruster in a modern media environment with music and dance. The piece is choreographed by Anna Vita, the long-time ballet director at the Mainfranken Theater in Würzburg; The musical direction is from the Allgäu musicians Rainer von viel and Michael Schönmetzer.
Five performances can be seen in the city theater until October 31st.
The piece is based on the diary entries of the Munich Cardinal Faulhaber.
Based on this authentic material, Leo Hiemer also makes the dubious balancing act of the church between defense of the faith and loyalty to the regime tangible in the encounter between two people who could hardly be more different.
After the film “Leni… must go”, the book “Gabi.
Born in the Allgäu.
Murdered in Auschwitz ”, and the traveling exhibition“ Beloved Gabi ”, the filmmaker Leo Hiemer once again deals with the fate of Gabriele Schwarz, the little girl from the Allgäu who was murdered in Auschwitz.
Together with the City Museum Memmingen, the theater in Kempten is organizing a themed week for the premiere of “The Jewess and the Cardinal”.
How he started researching Gabi with the help of his mother, what resistance he encountered and how the “Remembrance Café” with contemporary witnesses brought to light other Nazi crimes in the Allgäu, Leo Hiemer tells in an interview with the Sonthofen messenger.
