Die Filiale der Hölle auf Erden
UKRAINOMANIA – Revue eines Lebens nach Texten und Motiven von Joseph Roth
Claus Philipp/Tobias Schuster

In the mid-1920s, Joseph Roth visited his former home of Lviv—then known as Lemberg—and the surrounding Galician countryside in present-day Ukraine. A few years earlier, the writer and reporter, who was born in 1894 in the predominantly Jewish town of Brody, had written in a Berlin newspaper: 'Sometimes a nation becomes modern. Now it is the Ukrainians’ turn.' More than 100 years later, the Volkstheater is retracing Roth's steps to Lviv, presenting an international co-production there and in Vienna—a revue against war, darkness, and despair. This companion book documents the journey, the play, and its creation.