Dramatic Reading – The Letters of Kurt Hirschfeld

Two leading Swiss actors from stage and screen, Stefan Kurt and Friederike Wagner, bring Kurt Hirschfeld’s biography and work to life with a reading of select letters from Kurt Hirschfeld’s complete correspondence, which is preserved in the Archives of Leo Baeck Institute, New York. Textauswahl: Dagi Knellessen / Christoph Leimbacher.

Kurt Hirschfeld Collection Online in DigiBaeck
lbi.org/hirschfeld

Opening remarks by:
Corine Mauch
Mayor of Zürich
Prof. Raphael Gross
Director, Leo Baeck Institute London / Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt
Bernard Blum
Trustee of Leo Baeck Institute New York and nephew of Kurt Hirschfeld

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