About this event
ALFONS performs for schools – A multimedia project on the topics of tolerance, international understanding, democracy, and European education
It all began with a letter from the then-Mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz: "Dear Alfons, you have been in Germany for so long now – wouldn't you like to become German?"
It seems like a simple question, but the answer is difficult, especially for someone like Emmanuel Peterfalvi, alias Alfons, whose grandmother survived Auschwitz – and whose great-grandfather remained there forever.
Alfons tells the story of becoming German as an emotional journey through his family history, full of heartbreakingly funny, thoughtful, and deeply sad anecdotes, flashbacks, and reflections.
His autobiographical piece "Alfons – Even More German Now" is a warm-hearted, deeply human call for tolerance and international understanding. And, quite incidentally, it also makes a contribution to the much-discussed question of how the memory of the crimes of the Nazi era can be kept alive once the last eyewitnesses have passed away.
"Alfons – Even More German Now" has been awarded the Bavarian Cabaret Prize and the German Small Art Prize (Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis).
