A Message from Arnold Mittelman After a career in not-for-profit and commercial theater spanning more than 40 years I was honored in 2007 to found the National Jewish Theater / Foundation and in 2010 to assume leadership of its Holocaust Theater International...
The Milliner
Wolfgang Georg—Mid-late 40s; Jewish; handsome, sexy, charismatic; a complex, multi-layered character.
Amalia Georg—30s; Wolfgang’s wife; dark-haired, attractive, sensitive, worldly and pragmatic.
Claudia—30s. Owns and runs a fashionable milliner’s boutique in Berlin; a sometimes cabaret singer. Blonde, sexy and Aryan in appearance; a strong Dietrich style voice. Confident, flirtatious and with a surface affability that conceals a far darker side to her nature.
Wolfgang’s mother—Late 40s/early 50s; a refined Berliner; strong willed and sensitive.
Frau Hendel—Early 50s; an attractive gentile Berliner.
Gerhardt Müller—30s; blonde and Aryan looking; charming in a very Germanic way.
Max—40s/50s; concierge; warm natured and friendly.
Heinz—40s; Claudia’s friend; jovial and affable.
Paul—40s; Claudia’s friend; reserved.
Snapshot
Classic Stage Company, New York, November, 2006.
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Lifetime Achievement Award
On September 30, 2024, French playwright, Mr. Jean Claude Grumberg received the Lifetime Achievement Award. It was presented by NJTF HTII President, Arnold Mittelman with Dominique Trimbur, PhD-Manager for the History of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Teaching of the Holocaust of Fondation Pour La Memoir de la Shoah Project.
Many Questions and a Few Answers
by Robert Skloot 2022 NJTF HTII Lifetime Achievement Award AHO Winter Conference, Miami, FL I’d like to begin my remarks by asking the question that all of us have been asked often: “Why do you do the work you do?” There are, of course, many answers, but I’d imagine...