Fake Jews: An Autofiction by Noam Brusilovsky

In his monologue project "Fake Jews" in the Box of the Deutsches Theater, Noam Brusilovsky, who also directs, examines the appropriation of Jewish identity. The starting point is the case of Binjamin Wilkomirski: in 1995 Suhrkamp publishes a volume of memoirs by an alleged Latvian Holocaust survivor, until a journalist reveals that the biography was invented.

The evening asks whether appropriating a Jewish identity is a career advantage or a selling point, and sheds light on the blind spots of German remembrance culture in a polarised present.

The performance lasts 1 hour 40 minutes without an interval.