Heldenplatz (1989)
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
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Wolfgang Gasser as Robert Schuster |
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Kirsten Dene as Anna |
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Karlheinz Hackl as Lukas Schuster |
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Marianne Hoppe as Hedwig Schuster |
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Therese Affolter as Hertha |
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Elisabeth Rath as Olga |
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Anneliese Römer as Frau Zittel |
| Directing | Claus Peymann | Director |
| Writing | Thomas Bernhard | Writer |