Memorial Signs for employees of the Münchner Kammerspiele theatre,
Maximilianstraße 26-28

After many years of forgetting, the Münchner Kammerspiele theatre has set itself the task of recounting the fates of its employees during the Nazi era and commemorating its murdered colleagues. The long-term project SCHICKSALE (Fates) arose from a meeting between Janne and Klaus Weinzierl and dramaturge Martin Valdés-Stauber. Its aim is to draw attention to individual fates by initially installing five Memorial Signs. Research is ongoing, and further Memorial Signs to publicly commemorate colleagues who were murdered by the Nazis are to follow.

Benno Bing graduated from high school in Munich and then spent 10 years in London with his wife Karoline and their three daughters before becoming commercial director of the Münchner Kammerspiele in 1913-1924. In 1924, he became representative of the Kammerspiele in Berlin. From there, he fled first to Prague and then to France in 1935. His Catholic wife was forced to divorce him by the Gestapo in Munich in 1938. Benno Bing was arrested in France in October 1942 and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where he was murdered in December 1942. His wife and four children survived the Holocaust.

Emmy Rohwolt was born in Hamburg and attended the Max Reinhardt School, the drama school of the Deutsches Theater. From 1922 she lived in Italy, from 1931 in France, but returned in 1935 and performed at the Kammerspiele. In 1939, Emmy Rowohlt was arrested by the Gestapo for making statements critical of the regime and was declared mentally incompetent in Stadelheim Prison. In February 1940, she was admitted to the Eglfing-Haar mental hospital. Emmy Rohwolt tried in vain to get herself released. She was murdered at the Eglfing-Haar mental hospital in September 1944 by deliberate starvation.

Julius Peter Seger came from Bohemia and grew up in Vienna. In 1912, he became a member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus theatre. In 1926, he joined the ensemble at the Münchner Kammerspiele theatre. In 1933, the Jewish members of the ensemble emigrated, but Julius Peter Seger remained despite the employment ban and made his final appearance at the Münchner Kammerspiele on 6 May 1933. A few days later, he was one of the co-signatories of a declaration of solidarity with the director Falckenberg, who was being persecuted by the National Socialists. In July 1942, he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto. From there, Julius Peter Seger was taken to the Auschwitz extermination camp and murdered there in the summer of 1944.

Hans Tintner, born in Vienna, performed in Wedekind's play "Schloss Wetterstein" at the Kammerspiele theatre in December 1919, which was cancelled after anti-Semitic protests. He worked as an actor, screenwriter, director and production manager in film, and became famous for his film adaptation of the stage play "Zyankali § 218". In 1933, the Nazis banned the film. Hans Tintner left Germany and became a dubbing expert in Rome, Paris and Vienna. In August 1941, he was arrested by the French police in Paris and taken to Drancy. In July 1942, Hans Tintner was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and murdered there.

Edgar Weil began working as a dramaturge at the Münchner Kammerspiele theatre in the 1932–33 season. Immediately after the Nazis seized power, he was denounced, arrested and interrogated because of a letter from Moscow. After his release, Edgar Weil fled Germany and went into exile in the Netherlands. His wife Grete Weil followed him. After the German occupation, he was arrested in 1941 as a Jewish foreigner and deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where Edgar Weil was murdered on 17 September 1941. His wife Grete Weil went into hiding and survived. Back in Germany, she created a unique literary work against forgetting.