Exile in Jerusaelm

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Exile in Jerusaelm / Motti Lerner

Drama
Poetic Drama
Subject:
Art
Holocaust
Love
Migration

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A drama based on the last five years of the life of
the great German-Jewish poetess Else Lasker Schuller, who fled from Nazi
Germany in 1933 and found refuge in Jerusalem where, in spite of her greatness,
she died isolated and forgotten.

The characters

Female:1 Male:1 Total:2

Else Lasker Schuller (69) – The great German-Jewish poetess, who escaped Germany in 1933

Dr. Werner Herman (38) – A Jewish literary critic, who escaped Germany in 1933 and fled to Jerusalem soon afetwards

Productions

Premierre

1990

Additional theaters

Habimah National Theatre

Productions Abroad

Europe , Germany , Switzerland , United States

Royal National Theater Studio, London, 1992

Jewish Ensemble Theater, Detroit 1993

Tri-Buhne Theater, Stuttgart, 1994

Williamstown Theater Festival, 1994

Wienkelwiese Theater, Zurich, 1995

Theater J, Washington, 1998

La-Mamma Theater, New York, 1998

Freie Buhne Theater, Vienna, 2000

Salt Pillar Theater, Melbourne, Australia 2000

Bamah Theater, Berlin, 2002