ALFONS performs for schools – A multimedia project on the topics of tolerance, international understanding, democracy, and European education
Advance ticket sales from June 9, 2026
It all started with a letter from the then-mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz: "Dear Alfons, you have been in Germany for so long now - wouldn't you like to become German?"
It should be a simple question, but the answer is difficult, especially for someone like Emmanuel Peterfalvi, alias Alfons, whose grandmother survived Auschwitz - and whose great-grandfather remained there forever.
Alfons tells the story of his journey to becoming German as an emotional trip through his family history, full of heartbreakingly funny, thoughtful, and deeply sad anecdotes, flashbacks, and reflections.
His autobiographical piece "Alfons - Even More German" is a warm-hearted, deeply human call for tolerance and international understanding. And, quite incidentally, it also provides a contribution to the much-discussed question of how the memory of the crimes of the Nazi era can be kept alive when the last contemporary witnesses have passed away.
"Alfons - Even More German" was awarded the Bavarian Cabaret Prize and the German Small Arts Prize.
