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08 - 28/06/2015

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  • ALBUM KARLA HÖCKERA is a documentary theatre project exploring the recently discovered (2006) album of photographs that shows the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 entirely from the perspective of it's owner: SS Officer Karl Höcker. The piece is directed by Paul Bargetto with texts by Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszcuk performed by Marta Król, Grzegorz Sierzputowski, Tomasz Sobczak, Krzysiek Polkowski, and Helena Chorzelska with production design by Agnieszka Kaczynska.

    Album Karl Hocker is an attempt to understand the historical catastrophe of Auschwitz from the largely unexamined perspective of the perpetrators. Using documentary theatre techniques, improvisation, research and scripted drama, the piece explores the all too human men and women who carried out the final solution. By reanimating the photographs, the audience is invited to bear witness to the ordinary daily lives of the workers, managers, and executives who ran the Auschwitz death factory. The piece challenges traditional narratives and assumptions about the executioners of the Holocaust, unmasking the monsters of popular imagination, to reveal the ordinary and familiar face of human tragedy.

    This project was developed at the Sopot Non-Fiction Festival in 2014 followed by an intensive research and rehearsal process at Klub Karuzela as part of Centrum Kultury Bemowo‘s residency program with the generous support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. It premiered at the Instytut Teatralny in January 2015 and was produced by Agata Balcerzak. 

  • Director: Paul Bargetto
    www.paulbargetto.com
    www.teatrtransatlantyk.com
    Dramaturgy: Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk
    Costume design: Agnieszka Kaczyńska
    Performing: Helena Chorzelska, Marta Król, Krzysztof Polkowski, Grzegorz Sierzputowski, Tomasz Sobczak

    This project was developed at the Sopot Non-Fiction Festival in 2014 followed by an intensive research and rehearsal process at Klub Karuzela as part of Centrum Kultury Bemowo‘s residency program with the generous support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. It premiered at the Instytut Teatralny in January 2015 and was produced by Agata Balcerzak.