DAS GLASHAUS

Description

The Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz was crushed by history and forgotten. Humanism and a deep faith in humanity meet in his biography with rigid rules and a concealment of Switzerland's political failure during the Second World War. The focus of the theater evening is Carl Lutz's act of the greatest possible humanity: the rescue of thousands of Budapest Jews from the Nazi terror regime. Among them are also persons from the family of co-theater director Jonas Darvas. A historically-biographical theater evening about resistance, courage, diplomacy, and chutzpah. In the midst of the contested Budapest of the fateful years 1944/45. Press PROZ, "Against Forgetting", November 2025 Weekly Newspaper for Birseck and Dorneck: "Carl Lutz: An Almost Forgotten Rescuer in the Second World War", November 13, 2025 SRF 1 Regional Journal BS/BL and AG/SO, segment from min. 16:12 SRF 2 Culture, segment from min. 05:03 Further information about Carl Lutz is provided by the Carl Lutz Society: https://www.carl-lutz.com/de/ © Neues Theater© Neues Theater Participants and additional information: Play, text: Jonas Gygax directed by, text, set design: Jonas Darvas lighting, stage construction: Jonas Schaller assistant director: Yannah Kleiber production management: Eleni Foskett-Prelorentzos language: German duration: 90 min. A house production, in the studio