Saturday 28 February and Sunday 1 March 2026, 7pm, Theatre of Ederseeschule
"No one has the right to obey!"
Friends become enemies
The first sentence is a quote from Hannah Ahrendt referring to the Eichmann trial in Israel; Eichmann, like many perpetrators, explained his criminal actions by saying that he was only following orders.
Pupils from the Ederseeschule Herzhausen perform a play directed by Stephan Rumphorst.
Stephan Rumphorst wrote the play based on the biographies of Jews from Vöhler. It depicts what really happened. It shows how people changed their behaviour towards Jews, how singing brothers, sports comrades and good friends could actually become opponents and enemies.
In the upper classes of the Ederseeschule Herzhausen, eight girls and four boys have agreed to perform in the play. Several meetings have already taken place with the experienced theatre professional Rumphorst. The school management and teachers are doing their utmost to support the project. And we, the board of Förderkreis Synagoge in Vöhl, are delighted about this very special project.
On Friday, 27 February, there will be two screenings in the synagogue in the morning exclusively for pupils of the Ederseeschule.
Registration via Ms Anna Evers, tel. 05635-1022 or
Förderkreis Synagoge in Vöhl e.V., Sparkasse Waldeck-Frankenberg, IBAN DE48 5235 0005 0007 0515 01; at the box office – if there are still seats available – it costs 2 euros more.
The project is made possible by the support of the Netzwerk für Toleranz Waldeck-Frankenberg, which receives funding from the BMFSFJ's ‘Demokratie leben’ programme and the ‘Hessen – aktiv für Demokratie und gegen Extremismus’ programme.
