Café Schindler 2024

An extraordinary story that spans two centuries, two world wars and a family business

The legendary Café Schindler was founded in 1922 and quickly became the vibrant social centre of Innsbruck - until the Nazis came. It is the story of dispossession and expulsion, of the Holocaust in Tyrol and also a personal search for traces.

This deeply moving adaptation of a family story for the stage - precisely researched and poetically narrated by Meriel Schindler - takes the audience on an emotional journey of discovery and brings the history of the Jews of the Habsburg Monarchy to life. How present is the Jewish heritage in Tyrol and how visible is it in Innsbruck today? In cooperation with institutions in the city, an intensive research process will accompany the dramatisation of the novel. Documentary material, original sounds from numerous contemporary witnesses and musical references flank the theatrical realisation.

12.10.23 Reading at the Ferdinandeum

8.3.24 Storytelling café at Cafe Schindler

16.4.24 Jewish families in Innsbruck - Günther Lieder invites you to the synagogue

30.4.24 On Jewish traces with Günther Lieder in Innsbruck