On May, 30th (Friday) the International Elias Canetti Society together with Vladimir Danovski, Bulgarian theater director, who lives and works in Munich, organizes a theater workshop for youngsters The Rescue. The occasion is the 70th anniversary of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from deportation to the death camps during World War II. 35 students from Deutsche Schule will participate in the workshop. Through interactive methods the young people will face the fate of the Jews and will get the task to reenact the historical events in a creative way.

The theater workshop is based on Vladimir Danovski’s play The Rescue, for which in 2011 he received the European Prize for Tolerance.

The event will start from 11 am in the hall of the Friedrich Schiller German Language School. It is organized with the financial support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Vladimir Danovski is a theater and opera director, son of the famous theater director Bojan Danovski. In Bulgaria he is well-known for his productions in the National Opera in Sofia, in Varna and Stara Zagora and in the Student Theatre of the Music Academy. From the early 1980s he works as a director in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan. He is founder of the EurOpera organization in Munich and the Munich Music and Theatre Workshop. From 2002 to 2006 he is an artistic director of the musical “King Ludwig II” in Füssen and at the Deutsches Theater, Munich.