Schungelberg Housing Estate, Gelsenkirchen
If you want to know what a Ruhrgebiet working-class housing settlement was like, and how it can be modernised, you can do worse than take a walk around here. If you've any residual energy, you can then climb to the top of the Rungenberg Mining Tip (in the background) from which there is a great view of the area, including the Schalke football arena, one of the venues used in the 2006 World Cup.
If you want to know what a Ruhrgebiet working-class housing settlement was like, and how it can be modernised, you can do worse than take a walk around here. If you've any residual energy, you can then climb to the top of the Rungenberg Mining Tip (in the background) from which there is a great view of the area, including the Schalke football arena, one of the venues used in the 2006 World Cup.
Holocaust Plays
I have written two holocaust plays. The first, entitled "DREAMS OF BEATING TIME" (1988) is a huge cast epic dealing with the fate of Jewish classical musicians in Terezin (Theresienstadt) and comparing their fate with that of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.
The second "CAMP COMEDY" deals with the fate of the German actor and film director, Kurt Gerron - he sang the Mackie Messer Morität in the premiere of Brecht's "Threepenny Opera" and appeared opposite Marlene Dietrich in "The Blue Angel". The play was premiered at SUNY Geneseo in March 2003 in an excellent production by Randy Barbara Kaplan, featuring music by Anneliese Weibel. The play uses original cabaret texts written in Theresienstadt. My translations of these texts can be found in "Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust" (Johns Hopkins University Press) and in my article on Gerron and the cabaret in "Staging the Holocaust" ed. Claude Schumacher, Cambridge University Press 1998.
"CAMP COMEDY" is published in "The Theatre of the Holocaust. Vol 2, ed. Robert Skloot, University of Wisconsin Press. 1999. ISBN 0-299-16274-5
I also appear as the narrator in Ilona Ziok's documentary film "Kurt Gerrons Karussell" which stars Ute Lemper, Ben Becker, Bente Kahan and Coco Schumann.
I have written two holocaust plays. The first, entitled "DREAMS OF BEATING TIME" (1988) is a huge cast epic dealing with the fate of Jewish classical musicians in Terezin (Theresienstadt) and comparing their fate with that of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.
The second "CAMP COMEDY" deals with the fate of the German actor and film director, Kurt Gerron - he sang the Mackie Messer Morität in the premiere of Brecht's "Threepenny Opera" and appeared opposite Marlene Dietrich in "The Blue Angel". The play was premiered at SUNY Geneseo in March 2003 in an excellent production by Randy Barbara Kaplan, featuring music by Anneliese Weibel. The play uses original cabaret texts written in Theresienstadt. My translations of these texts can be found in "Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust" (Johns Hopkins University Press) and in my article on Gerron and the cabaret in "Staging the Holocaust" ed. Claude Schumacher, Cambridge University Press 1998.
"CAMP COMEDY" is published in "The Theatre of the Holocaust. Vol 2, ed. Robert Skloot, University of Wisconsin Press. 1999. ISBN 0-299-16274-5
I also appear as the narrator in Ilona Ziok's documentary film "Kurt Gerrons Karussell" which stars Ute Lemper, Ben Becker, Bente Kahan and Coco Schumann.
Camp Comedy 
Dreams of Beating TimeThe play deals with the parallel fates of the Jewish musician Kurt Singer and Wilhelm Furtwängler before and during the Third Reich
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