{"id":34474,"date":"2021-07-01T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=34474"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:31:04","slug":"everymans-jews-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/everymans-jews-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyman&#8217;s Jews exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/everymansmall1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/everymansmall1.jpg\" alt=\"Exhibition poster\" class=\"wp-image-35421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/everymansmall1.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/everymansmall1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The annual Salzburg festival counts as one of Europe&#8217;s most renowned cultural events. The Jewish Museum&#8217;s <em>Everyman&#8217;s Jews<\/em> exhibition looks back at over a century of festival history and Jewish involvement within it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Examines the critical role of Jewish contributors in the festival success story<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Explores the impact of anti-semitism in this context<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Features such giants as Max Reinhardt and Bruno Walter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Jul 14 &#8211; Nov 21, 2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/jewish-museum\/\">Jewish Museum visitor &amp; tickets info<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/#history\">History exhibitions<\/a> in Vienna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">100 years of the Salzburg Festival<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Midsummernightsdream.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Midsummernightsdream.jpg\" alt=\"Theatre performance at the Salzburger Festspiele in 1927\" class=\"wp-image-34477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Midsummernightsdream.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Midsummernightsdream-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(A performance of A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream in 1927 \u00a9 ASF_PhotoEllinger)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Austria often manages the trick of taking a local event and turning it into a global phenomenon. Like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/new-years-concert\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"6308\">New Year&#8217;s concert<\/a>, broadcast to over 90 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same can be said of the famous <em>Salzburger Festspiele<\/em> (the Salzburg Festival), a huge annual event featuring opera, theatre, classical music and other performing arts that attracts visitors from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The festival began in 1920 with a performance of the morality play <em>Jedermann<\/em> (Everyman) in front of Salzburg cathedral, a tradition that continues today and forms the absolute highlight of the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To play the title role of Everyman is an honour claimed by such international names as Klaus Maria Brandauer and Maximilian Schell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Max Reinhardt (1873 &#8211; 1943), the legendary film and theatre director, put on that first performance. And so began a long history of Jewish involvement with the Festspiele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jewish Museum&#8217;s <em>Everyman&#8217;s Jews<\/em> exhibition explores that history and the lives of various Jewish personalities that made significant contributions to the festival&#8217;s rise to global prominence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reinhardt, for example, remained a leading figure as a cofounder of the event and the major driving force behind it. Never-before seen objects from his estate feature among the exhibition displays, alongside a dynamic mix of art, films, documents, and other objects that illustrate the biographical, social and cultural threads that run through the Jewish Festspiele story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other important Jewish contributors include, for example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The writer Berta Zuckerkandl (1864 &#8211; 1945), another cofounder of the festival<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The great Bruno Walter (1876 &#8211; 1962), who conducted the Wiener Philharmoniker many times in Salzburg (for the first time in 1925 and the last in 1956)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lothar Wallerstein (1882 &#8211; 1949), who staged Wagner operas at the festival during Austria&#8217;s early years of far-right politics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Arturo Toscanini (1867 &#8211; 1957), who conducted numerous concerts and operas in Salzburg in the 1930s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Lovers of theatre history can expect a number of delights. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reinhardt&#8217;s handwritten stage-direction notes for a 1933 production of <em>Faust<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A signed program from that first <em>Everyman<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Architect Oskar Strnad&#8217;s preliminary 1926 set designs for <em>The Magic Flute<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A film excerpt of Tilly Losch in the <em>Dance of Hands<\/em> from 1927.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, the rise of Austrofascism and eventual annexation of the country by Nazi Germany had a huge impact on Jewish involvement in the festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see, for example, a letter from Reinhardt with instructions to seek vandalism insurance after his Salzburg residence was attacked by Nazi thugs in 1934: an object of particular poignancy when you know what was to come in the next few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Political developments added fuel to the existing fires of anti-semitism in the city; most Jewish performers never returned to Salzburg after WWII (or were never invited back).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Max Reinhardt, for example, died in New York in 1943. His grave does little justice to his key role in European and global theatre as a pioneer of modern approaches to stage design and direction. Thankfully, <em>Everyman&#8217;s Jews<\/em> redresses the balance somewhat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Explore the Salzburg Festival&#8217;s Jewish personalities from July 14th to November 21st, 2021. Any valid ticket or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/city-passes\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"30352\">sightseeing pass<\/a> for the museum includes access to the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if the topic inspires you to visit Salzburg itself, the train can get you there in under 2.5 hours for a quick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/mapsgeography\/salzburg\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"12693\">day trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city is quite compact, and rather beautiful. Max Reinhardt, for example, bought and renovated the city&#8217;s Schloss Leopoldskron, known as a film location for <em>The Sound of Music<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to the exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Find your way to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/jewish-museum\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1591\">Jewish Museum site<\/a> on Dorotheergasse. <em>Everyman&#8217;s Jews<\/em> occupies the main exhibition galleries on the first floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A smaller one-room exhibition on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/hans-kelsen-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"27220\">Hans Kelsen and the Austrian constitution<\/a> (until October 10th, 2021) runs concurrently for much of the same time, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Dorotheergasse 11, 1010 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1kuTU0C-76Mhn7ArHvQRPPPNUQ_y5QnDH\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Salzburg festival counts as one of Europe&#8217;s most renowned cultural events. 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