Overview
Heldenplatz centers on a Jewish family in the Vienna of 1988. The main character, Professor Josef Schuster, a mathematician, who can no longer stand the anti-Semitism he still finds in Austria 50 years after the Anschluss – commits suicide by jumping out of his apartment window onto the historic Heldenplatz before the play begins.
Cast
- Wolfgang Gasser as Robert Schuster
- Kirsten Dene as Anna
- Karlheinz Hackl as Lukas Schuster
- Marianne Hoppe as Hedwig Schuster
- Therese Affolter as Hertha
- Elisabeth Rath as Olga
- Anneliese Römer as Frau Zittel