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‘One Jew, twelve Germans, 5 ml of the Culture of Remembrance, 3 ml of stereotype, 2 tsp. of patriotism, 1 tsp. of Israel, one falafel, five stumbling blocks and a dash of anti-Semitism’ – that’s the recipe for a Masel Tov Cocktail.

Everyone knows Dimitrij Liebermann as Dima. He’s a youth of the Ruhr, a son of Russian parents and a Jew. While smoking a cigarette in the school bathroom with his girlfriend and turning swastikas into comic owls with a marker, fellow student Tobi reminds him ‘what would have been done to him back then’. And Tobi means: the gas chamber. Dima sticks up for himself, breaking Tobi’s nose – and gets expelled. Breathless and full of irony, Dima leads us through his world and shows us what it means to be a Jew in Germany today. While the headmaster insists that Dima go apologise to Tobi, armed with flowers, he has to drag his grandfather, who is worried about the ‘Islamisation of the West’, away from an AfD campaign booth. All Dima really wants is to be left in peace in his favourite diner – the best Lebanese in the area with the city’s best falafel. But he’s a Jew, and always the first person people turn to with any family anecdotes, stories or questions about the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, the Middle East conflict, German guilt and the Culture of Remembrance. Why does his fellow schoolmate have to ask him at the traffic lights if he’s really a Jew so that he can add that he’s the grandchild of a German anti-Nazi resistance fighter? And why does the overbearing teacher, who can’t bring herself to utter the word ‘Jew’, always want Dima to talk about the Shoah? Why never about gefilte fish? ‘Cause there’s no business like Shoah-business’? Although not aggressive by nature, Dima is increasingly angry.

Jewish-Israeli director Sapir Heller will adapt the screenplay by Arkadij Khaet and Merle Teresa Khaet for the theatre for the first time and is inviting the public to see the world through Dima’s eyes. With anti-Semitism on the rise again, she expands the film Masel Tov Cocktail into an accessible and tangible theatre collage of what it means to be Jewish in Germany today, looking at anger, rage, apologies, remembrance and especially: living despite everything. Guaranteed to have Jewish humour.

Production Staff

Director: Sapir Heller
Stage and Costumes: Anna van Leen
Dramaturg: Laura Mangels
Theater education: Anke Weingarte