"We are conducting a trial for truthfulness and justice against lies and slander" Georges Brunschvig
At the beginning of the 1930s, they were available at every newsstand: "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion". When the anti-Semitic diatribe was sold at the Casino Bern after a Swiss National Socialist rally in 1933, the Federation of Jewish Communities and the Jewish Community of Bern decided to go to court. But who should conduct the trial? A young lawyer who has just completed his law studies in Bern represents the Jewish side in court: Georges Brunschvig. His fiancée, 18-year-old Odette Wyler, follows every day of the two-year trial in Bern's Amtshaus as a spectator. The international press reports in detail and the crowds are enormous. Carl Albert Loosli is appointed as an expert by the judge. Anti-Semitism is to be dealt a devastating blow by means of a judicial verdict.
World premiere March 23, 2024
Further performances: March 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 30, March 2, 3, 4, .5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, April 2024
