Memorial Plate Wohnhaus Jura Soyfer

On October 29, 2015, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the house in 7., Lindengasse 41, commemorating the political dramatist Jura Soyfer. He lived in this house in 1937 until he was arrested as a political opponent of the Austrofascist regime. He was held in custody for three months. After the National Socialists seized power, Soyfer was threatened by the regime's antisemitic policies. During an attempt to flee to Switzerland, he was arrested, sent to the concentration camp Dachau, and later to the concentration camp Buchenwald, where he died in 1939 from typhus. The memorial plaque is the result of an initiative by the theater collective PROJEKT THEATER/FLEISCHEREI_mobil, which engages artistically with Soyfer's work. The plaque was crafted from travertine from the Buchenwald quarry by the Viennese sculptor Susanne Kompast.