In Regensburg there is excitement about a Schuhplattler performance at a monument to the former synagogue. The city’s Jewish community responded, according to a report by the Central Bavarian newspaper shocked at the performance last Sunday. Ilse Danziger, the chairwoman, spoke of “disrespect”. A city spokeswoman said on Tuesday that a permit for street music and dance performances had been issued. However, this only referred to the square in front of the “Alte Wache” on Neupfarrplatz. According to the city, the event was organized by the Bavarian Trachtenverband.
Criticism of the Schuhplattler performance on the memorial also came from the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of the Neupfarrkirche. The performance expresses a “disrespect towards the Jewish community and a total forgetfulness of history in dealing with the Regensburg Jews’ expulsion in 1519,” it said.
Those responsible for the community also reacted with shock to the fact that “this tasteless event” obviously received applause from the spectators. In the Central Bavarian newspaper Erich Tahedl, chairman of the interest group Regensburger Trachtenvereine, defended the performance. “It’s not a memorial, it’s a work of art,” he told the newspaper. “The artist wanted people to meet there and dance is a form of encounter.” With the memorial, the artist and sculptor Dani Karavan drew the layout of the synagogue, which had been destroyed in 1519.