Brundibar

Holocaust? Again? That is the first reaction of the members of the youth theatre Berliner Schaubühne when they hear about the newest project. They are to rehearse the children’s opera “Brundibár,” which is famous for being performed in the concentration camp Terezín. It is not just a theoretical history lesson at school. The young theatre actors are thrown into the vortex of history when they travel to Terezín to learn about the horrors of the Third Reich and about the place where the opera “Brundibár” had such a key role. The group is accompanied by Greta Klingsberg, a charismatic elderly lady from Israel and one of the surviving original performers of the opera “Brundibár”. She takes them on a journey back in time, and they slowly start questioning their attitude toward German history. When the young actors bow at the end of the “Brundibár” premiere, Greta is sitting in the audience, deeply touched by her friends’ performance.