

Face Forward: Growing up in Nazi Germany
Brendon Votipka
This is a touching, fragile portrait of a group rarely seen in traditional Holocaust literature—those who are unwilling to give up Germany as their home, despite the Nazi threats.
Wolfgang, a hat maker, is forced by others to flee Germany for England, leaving his mother behind, who refuses to go.
Filled with love for his homeland, he is unable to accept that she has probably been interned in a death camp, and he staunchly refuses to give up his German identity in front of his new British neighbors.
Wolfgang's struggle of adamant denial sheds light on the agony of losing the only home ones knows and loves.
| Character |
|---|
| Amalia Georg 30’s; Wolfgang’s wife; dark-haired, attractive, sensitive, worldly and pragmatic. |
| Claudia 30’s. Owns and runs a fashionable milliner’s boutique in Berlin; a sometimes cabaret singer. Blonde, sexy and Aryan in appearance; a strong Dietrich style voice. Confident, flirtatious and with a surface affability that conceals a far darker side to her nature. |
| Wolfgang’S Mother Late 40’s/early 50’s; a refined Berliner; strong willed and sensitive. |
| Frau Hendel Early 50’s; an attractive gentile Berliner. |
| Gerhardt Müller 30’s; blonde and Aryan looking; charming in a very Germanic way. |
| Max 40’s/50’s; concierge; warm natured and friendly. |
| Heinz 40’s; Claudia’s friend; jovial and affable. |
| Paul 40’s; Claudia’s Friend; reserved. |
| Wolfgang Geor Mid-late 40’s; Jewish; handsome, sexy, charismatic; a complex, multi-layered character. |
The Milliner is a play written by Suzanne Glass and published by Samuel French .
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