PHACE — Die Stadt ohne Juden — Semperoper Dresden

Stummfilm
Die Stadt ohne Juden  (Österreich, 1924)

Regie: Hans Karl Breslauer
Musik: Olga Neuwirth (2017)

Comissioned by Wiener Konzerthaus, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Barbican Centre and Sinfonieorchester Basel. 

The silent film THE CITY WITHOUT JEWS is now considered one of the most important Austrian productions of the interwar period. In an irritatingly prophetic way, it shows the cultural and economic impoverishment of a city after the expulsion of the Jewish population. The work was only preserved in a fragmentary version – also trivializing its content – until the Austrian Film Archive finally rediscovered the missing parts in France.