Drama

Hiob

Job
Based on the novel by Joseph Roth
Performed in German

Trailer: Andreas J. Etter
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster

Mendel Singer, a Jewish Orthodox Torah teacher, emigrates to America with his family in search of a better life, reluctantly leaving only his sick son Menuchim behind. Initially the New World brings happiness and prosperity to him and his family, but then the war breaks out and Mendel loses his wife and children – and, ultimately, his faith in God. But then a miracle takes place...

Henriette Hörnigk ("Die Küste Utopias", "Der fröhliche Weinberg") returns to Wiesbaden to direct Mendel's tale of woe, based on the Old Testament's Book of Job. Joseph Roth's literary monument to Jewish culture is underscored by Wiesbaden's Klezmer band "i giocosi", under the direction of Ako Karim.

Cast

Director Henriette Hörnigk
Design Claudia Charlotte Burchard
Lighting Design Steffen Hilbricht, Marcel Hahn
Dramaturgy Marie Johannsen
Learning & Participation Anne Tysiak
Mendel Singer Uwe Kraus
Deborah Singer Anne Lebinsky
Menuchim / Rabbi Lina Habicht
Shemariah / Menkes / Psychiatrist/ Kapturak / Peasant / Rabbi Lukas Schrenk
Jonas / Kosak / Mac / Groschel / Sameschkin Christoph Kohlbacher
Mirjam Florenze Schüssler
School Children Statisterie des Hessischen Staatstheaters Wiesbaden
Stage Music Ako Karim, Jens Mackenthun, Harald Becher