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Hildegard Barglow was born
in 1908 in Dresden Germany. She grew up in a Jewish family, became an
actress, and in the late 20s and early 30s worked for a theater company
(a "Wandertheater") that traveled from town to town in the Rhineland.
In 1938, fleeing the German Third Reich, Hilde emigrated to the JoAnne Brasil, who was one of Hilde’s housemates in the 1980s, came up with the idea of giving dramatic expression to her life and times. She and Raymond wrote "Hildegard's Wander Theater." The first reading was held in Berkeley California in July 2005. The second and third readings were presented in the Community Room of the synagogue in Dresden in October 2006. All of these readings were done in English. Currently, the best guide to the Dresden version of the play is the program notes that were made for the Dresden performance: PDF version or Word Document version. You can also view the script for the Dresden reading: PDF version. (These documents may take a while to down load ... patience please.) Recently (2010) JoAnne Brasil , who now lives just north of Boston in Salem, MA, has written her own interpretation of Hilde's story, which you can find out about here: Boston Version. JoAnne's "The Wander Theater" will be performed at the Griffen Theatre in Salem in November of 2010. Many people contributed to the development of this drama, including Jayne Wenger, Pam Montanaro, Margret Schaefer, and Richard Kalman who composed and played music for this drama. In Dresden, Marisa Giannini was instrumental in preparing the readings we did there.
The
play draws on three sources of information about Hildegard’s life: the
memories of those who knew her, the research done by the Foundation in Dresden
on the genealogy and circumstances of Hilde's family, and six decades of diaries and photo albums. --
Raymond Barglow
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