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When the door to courtroom 700 of the Berlin Moabit jury court opened on November 12, 1992, an old man stepped into the dock. His name was Erich Honecker – former Chairman of the State Council of the GDR. The charge was manslaughter. But Honecker had cancer. The case was dropped. A verdict was never reached. There were no verbatim transcripts of the trial. All that remained were absurd anecdotes and a 12-
page statement by the defendant in court. krügerXweiss created a touching and stirring play based on this. They let the perpetrator speak, making him the protagonist of his own story.

The Trial III – Honecker

St. Marienberg monastery church, Helmstedt

After returning from exile, he began his work in Braunschweig until 1956. In a sensational trial, he achieved the rehabilitation of the resistance fighters of July 20, 1944. His work in Frankfurt until 1968 was associated with the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann and the Auschwitz trials. The controversial lawyer encountered a wide range of rejections, and as a Jew, also openly anti-Semitic hostility. He campaigned for the consistent criminal prosecution of Nazi injustice and thus made a significant contribution to the democratization of West German society.

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Andrea Jensen

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2 - 12 Oct, 2025

The Trial III – Honecker · Staatstheater Braunschweig

Jan 5 - Feb 14, 2025

Fritz Bauer Ultras · Staatstheater Braunschweig

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