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202689 minPGdocumentary

Hirschfeld – The Unknown Known

202689 minPGdocumentary

Kurt Hirschfeld, the architect behind Zurich's Schauspielhaus theater's cultural resistance during the Nazi era, remains largely forgotten despite its storied legacy.

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Stina Werenfels,

Samir Jamal Al Din

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Kurt Hirschfeld, the architect behind Zurich's Schauspielhaus theater's cultural resistance during the Nazi era, remains largely forgotten despite its storied legacy.

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Stina Werenfelsdirector

Samir Jamal Al Dindirector

Felix Schneiderwriter

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The reputation of Zurich's Schauspielhaus theater is based on figures such as Bertolt Brecht and Therese Giese, who turned it into a bastion of cultural resistance during the Nazi era. After the war, the global successes of Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt consolidated this reputation. But the architect of this glory has been forgotten: Kurt Hirschfeld.

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