No Subsidies from the Department of Culture for the Jewish Theater of Austria
10TH ANNIVERSARY PERFORMANCE SERIES IS THREATENED
This year, with the festival "gedainkst?", [Austria′s] "first Jewish theater company since 1938" celebrates its 10th anniversary. The two-year artistic project, "Remembrance and Renewal", commemorates and reflects on Jewish experience in Austria. The official position of the government: support for this cultural initiative isn′t worth the trouble.
Exactly 70 years after the start of WWII, the program′s numerous performance events recall and reflect upon the horrors of the war and the destruction of Jewish life and culture in this city. It seems incomprehensible that precisely in this year - at the time of the its 10th jubilee - the Jewish Theater of Austria has received no support from the city.
"It is hard for me to believe that Vienna does not support this initiative with public funding, especially considering the modest amount needed to realize the remembrance project. We ask Socialist Party Cultural Councillor Mailath-Poklorny to finally support the Jewish Theater of Austria - ten years after its founding - with public funds", stresses the Culture Speaker for the Austrian Conservative Party, Parliament Member Franz Ferdinand Wolf.
