Masopust: Fredy

Some stories are seemingly untouchable. They carry a lot of tension. They have hidden areas and secret passages. One can only dance around the cave entrance and peer inside. Fredy Hirsch's life belongs to such stories. It is shrouded in several layers of inviolability – it is the story of a coach and teacher of children in inhumane conditions, a Jew in a concentration camp, the story of a homosexual in totalitarianism.

Emphasis on physical fitness, movement and hygiene. For discipline and regularity. How can a person preserve self-respect in a totalitarian prison? By rehearsing a theater performance with the children? That he builds in them and in himself the consciousness of inviolability, the possibility of play and transformation?

At the end of his life, Fredy was faced with a challenge to a camp-wide rebellion. “I convinced him that it was necessary to have a leader and that he was chosen for him. He then told me that he understood the situation, but that he could not make a decision because of the children. According to the description, Fredy Hirsch requested an hour for reflection." It moves through the theater of "hours for reflection", according to the memories of witnesses, philosophical maps, fairy tales for children and the movements of bodies when meeting other bodies.