Culture League in Germany Plans Future

The work done by the Jewish Culture League of Germany and its plans for the future were outlined at a gathering of representatives of the Jewish press, and of the Jewish organizations arranged by the responsible artistic and organizing leaders of the League. The members of the artistic personnel of all the various groups of the League were also present, and reported on the work of their particular sections.

The president of the Culture League, Dr. Kurt Singer, described the development of the Jewish Culture League and its needs and paid tribute to the devoted work of the artists. He appealed to the Jewish Press that it should to a greater extent than hitherto, while retaining full right of criticism, educate the public to a proper understanding of this institution which is giving German Jewry a chance, which may not recur, for shaping Jewish cultural communal life.

Those who desire a stronger emphasis of the Jewish aspect in the work of the Jewish Culture League, he said, may rest assured that the leaders of the Jewish Culture League have constantly before their eyes the ideal of a strongly-Jewish German theatre. They must not, however, press a demand which it is impossible to fulfill, for an abrupt cultural break and transformation. They must in this mater place confidence in the course of development.

The public must be educated to regard the Jewish Culture League not as a seasonal affair, but as something permanent, as an institution which demands the participation of its members at every part of the year. The Jewish Culture League Theatre would continue its performances during the summer, and the League Orchestra would shortly undertake a tour throughout the whole of Germany, and they hoped that it would be a great success.

The Administrative Director of the Culture League, Dr. Werner Levie, said that since October 1 there had been 123 performances in the Berlin Jewish Culture League Theatre, seventy-one plays and fifty-two operas. In addition the Culture League had arranged eighty-three concerts, forty-two of them orchestral concerts, twenty-four chamber music concerts, eight choral concerts and eight song recitals, twenty-three instrumental soloists, twenty-one vocal soloists and thirteen acompanists had collaborated, who do not belong to the artistic personnel of the Jewish Culture League. In addition there had ###ninety lecture evenings, three children’s performances and two charitable evenings. There had been twelve special performances held in the Culture League Theatre on various festive occasions. They had also had nineteen performances on tour, eighteen of them theatre performances and the other an orchestral concert.