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Metronome Ticking
Author(s): Henrik Eger
Metronome Ticking is a docudrama based on the memoirs of a Jewish Holocaust survivor and the letters of a German propaganda officer during World War II who hated “Jews, Catholics, and Negroes.” Performed by their two sons, Bob Spitz and Henrik Eger, who exchange roles halfway through. Set during the Third Reich, the drama is brutally honest, yet uplifting. The experiences of an Austrian Holocaust survivor, fleeing across Europe, collide with the conflicting conscience and actions of a young Third Reich war correspondent in occupied France.
Format: Docudrama for two voices
Cast Size:2M
Character breakdown:
Bob Spitz, Lily’s son
Henrik Eger, Alf’s son
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Martins Run, Media, PA, November 9, 2006.
Martins Run, Media, PA, November 9, 2006.
Original Source Material: Memoirs of Lily Spitz, whose husband was deported to Dachau and Buchenwald; Alf Eger, German propaganda officer who hated Jews, in his letters to his wife during WWII.
Nationality of Author: German
Original Language: English, later translated into German.
Publisher:
Self published: Henrik Eger
Production Rights Holder:
Experience(s) Chronicled: Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism | Concentration and Extermination Camps | Righteous Gentiles | Hiding | Rescue | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Escape | Women and the Holocaust | Reactions to the Holocaust | Other Victims of Nazi Persecution | Liberation
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