The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman is a documentary theater work that offers a rare glimpse into queer life during the Holocaust. Born in Germany in 1928, Margot Heuman was a survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto and the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen. She was the first lesbian Holocaust survivor to bear testimony. Based on historian Anna Hájková's interviews with Heuman, the play presents a poignant look at coming of age as a Jewish queer woman in the concentration camps, at love, choices, sexual violence, homophobia and survival.
Moving, funny, pragmatic and always original, Margot Heuman reminds us of the humanity within the society of Holocaust victims, but also the stories erased by the heteronormative expectations of the genocide.
Director: Erika Hughes
Script: Anna Hájková, Erika Hughes
 
Panel discussion:
Anna Hájková, Historian and Associate Professor, University of Warwick
Erika Hughes, Director, Dramaturg and Academic Lead for Performance at the University of Portsmouth School of Art, Design and Performance
 
Moderator:
Tom Juncker, Curator, Jewish Museum Vienna
 
Free admission as of 6:00 p.m.
 
Advance booking by June 28 is essential: Tel.: +43 1 535 04 31-1510 or email: events@jmw.at