Heldenplatz

Heldenplatz centers on a Jewish family in the Vienna of 1988. The main character, Professor Josef Schuster, a mathematician, who can no longer stand the anti-Semitism he still finds in Austria 50 years after the Anschluss – commits suicide by jumping out of his apartment window onto the historic Heldenplatz before the play begins.

Director: Claus Peymann

Cast: Wolfgang Gasser, Kirsten Dene, Karlheinz Hackl, Marianne Hoppe, Therese Affolter, Elisabeth Rath, Anneliese Römer

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.