Codename Brooklyn

A memorial plaque in Innsbruck refers to a story of persecution, resistance and liberation: to Margarete Kelderer and her sister Eva Weber, who played a decisive role in Operation Greenup, but who do not appear in the collective memory. If at all, the two US agents and a Tyrolean resistance fighter who parachuted over the Stubai Glacier on February 26, 1945 are known - Fred Mayer, Hans Wijnberg and Franz Weber from Oberperfuss. They were to provide the US secret service with information from the "Nazi Alpine fortress". A number of women and families also helped them, such as Weber's sisters, his fiancée Anni Niederkircher and her mother Anna. The Gestapo tortured and killed, trying to expose the network. However, Innsbruck was eventually liberated without a fight under its former code name Brooklyn, inspiring Quentin Tarantino to make his film Inglourious Basterds.

To mark the 80th anniversary of Operation Greenup, the Tiroler Landestheater is taking a look at the history of the Tyrolean resistance, in which women also played a central role. Using research, archive material and collaboration with historians and experts in everyday life, the theatrical bridge from the past to the present is built emotionally and visually, scratching at national post-war myths from a global and local perspective and breaking with the traditional male heroic story. Let's finally talk about the many heroines and delve deep into the gaps in Tyrolean contemporary history!

Cooperation City Archive / City Museum Innsbruck, erinnern.at, Institute for Contemporary History University of Innsbruck, Absam Community Museum, Austrian-American Society