The Polish Theatre Of The Holocaust

Author : Grzegorz Niziolek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350039681

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The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust by Grzegorz Niziolek Pdf

Grzegorz Niziolek's The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role of theatre as a crucial medium of collective memory – and collective forgetting – of the trauma of the Holocaust carried out by the Nazis on Polish soil. The period gave rise to two of the most radical and influential theatrical ideas during work on productions that addressed the subject of the Holocaust – Grotowski's Poor Theatre and Kantor's Theatre of Death - but the author examines a deeper impact in the role that theatre played in the processes of collective disavowal to being a witness to others' suffering. In the first part, the author examines six decades of Polish theatre shaped by the perspective of the Holocaust in which its presence is variously visible or displaced. Particular attention is paid to the various types of distortion and the effect of 'wrong seeing' enacted in the theatre, as well as the traces of affective reception: shock, heightened empathy, indifference. In part two, Niziolek examines a range of theatrical events, including productions by Leon Schiller, Jerzy Grotowski, Tadeusz Kantor, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Warlikowski and Ondrej Spišák. He considers how these productions confronted the experience of bearing witness and were profoundly shaped by the legacy of the Holocaust. The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust reveals how -- by testifying about society's experience of the Holocaust -- theatre has been the setting for fundamental processes taking place within Polish culture as it confronts suppressed traumatic wartime experiences and a collective identity shaped by the past.

Author : Magda Romanska
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783083213

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The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor by Magda Romanska Pdf

Despite its international influence, Polish theatre remains a mystery to many Westerners. This volume attempts to fill in current gaps in English-language scholarship by offering a historical and critical analysis of two of the most influential works of Polish theatre: Jerzy Grotowski’s ‘Akropolis’ and Tadeusz Kantor’s ‘Dead Class’. By examining each director’s representation of Auschwitz, this study provides a new understanding of how translating national trauma through the prism of performance can alter and deflect the meaning and reception of theatrical works, both inside and outside of their cultural and historical contexts.

Author : Magda Romanska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Experimental theater
ISBN : LCCN:2020717839

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The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor by Magda Romanska Pdf

Author : Claude Schumacher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521624150

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Staging the Holocaust by Claude Schumacher Pdf

'To portray the Holocaust, one has to create a work of art', says Claude Lanzmann, the director of Shoah. However, can the Holocaust be turned into theatre? Is it possible to portray on stage events that, by their monstrosity, defy human comprehension? These are the questions addressed by the playwrights and the scholars featured in this book. Their essays present and analyse plays performed in Israel, America, France, Italy, Poland and, of course, Germany. The style of presentation ranges from docudramas to avant-garde performances, from realistic impersonation of historical figures to provocative and nightmarish spectacles. The book is illustrated with original production photographs and some rare drawings and documents; it also contains an important descriptive bibliography of more than two hundred Holocaust plays.

Author : Elisa-Maria Hiemer,Jiří Holý,Agata Firlej,Hana Nichtburgerová
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110671056

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Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction by Elisa-Maria Hiemer,Jiří Holý,Agata Firlej,Hana Nichtburgerová Pdf

The Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction aims to increase the visibility and show the versatility of works from East-Central European countries. It is the first encyclopedic work to bridge the gap between the literary production of countries that are considered to be main sites of the Holocaust and their recognition in international academic and public discourse. It contains over 100 entries offering not only facts about the content and motifs but also pointing out the characteristic fictional features of each work and its meaning for academic discourse and wider reception in the country of origin and abroad. The publication will appeal to the academic and broader public interested in the representation of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and World War II in literature and the arts. Besides prose, it also considers poetry and theatrical plays from 1943 through 2018. An introduction to the historical events and cultural developments in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Czech, and Slovak Republic, and their impact on the artistic output helps to contextualise the motif changes and fictional strategies that authors have been applying for decades. The publication is the result of long-term scholarly cooperation of specialists from four countries and several dozen academic centres.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780857285164

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The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marek Haltof
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857453563

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Polish Film and the Holocaust by Marek Haltof Pdf

During World War II Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Polish territories. This book is the first to address the representation of the Holocaust in Polish film and does so through a detailed treatment of several films, which the author frames in relation to the political, ideological, and cultural contexts of the times in which they were created. Following the chronological development of Polish Holocaust films, the book begins with two early classics: Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage (1948) and Aleksander Ford's Border Street (1949), and next explores the Polish School period, represented by Andrzej Wajda's A Generation (1955) and Andrzej Munk's The Passenger (1963). Between 1965 and 1980 there was an "organized silence" regarding sensitive Polish-Jewish relations resulting in only a few relevant films until the return of democracy in 1989 when an increasing number were made, among them Krzysztof Kieślowski's Decalogue 8 (1988), Andrzej Wajda's Korczak (1990), Jan Jakub Kolski's Keep Away from the Window (2000), and Roman Polański's The Pianist (2002). An important contribution to film studies, this book has wider relevance in addressing the issue of Poland's national memory.

Author : Kornelia Kończal,A. Dirk Moses
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000899306

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Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory by Kornelia Kończal,A. Dirk Moses Pdf

This book charts and traces state-mandated or state-encouraged “patriotic” histories that have recently emerged in many places around the globe. Such “patriotic” histories can revolve around both affirmative interpretations of the past and celebration of national achievements. They can also entail explicitly denialist stances against acknowledging responsibility for past atrocities, even to the extent of celebrating perpetrators. Whereas in some cases “patriotic” history takes the shape of a coherent doctrine, in others they remain limited to loosely connected narratives. By combining nationalist and narcissist narratives, and by disregarding or distorting historical evidence, “patriotic” history promotes mythified, monumental, and moralistic interpretations of the past that posit partisan and authoritarian essentialisms and exceptionalisms. Whereas the global debates in interdisciplinary memory studies revolve around concepts like cosmopolitan, global, multidirectional, relational, transcultural, and transnational memory, to mention but a few, the actual socio-political uses of history remain strikingly nation-centred and one-dimensional. This volume collects fifteen caste studies of such “nationalizations of history” ranging from China to the Baltic states. They highlight three features of this phenomenon: the ruthlessness of methods applied by many state authorities to impose certain interpretations of the past, the increasing discrepancy between professional and political approaches to collective memory, and the new “post-truth” context. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of international politics, the radical right and global history. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.

Author : Krystyna Duniec,Joanna Klass,Joanna Krakowska-Narożniak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0857421786

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(A)pollonia by Krystyna Duniec,Joanna Klass,Joanna Krakowska-Narożniak Pdf

Questioning the ethics of historical narratives and the construction of national identities, this anthology explores, in innovative language, the trauma of war, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, reappraisals of the post-communist reality and cultural complexes in Poland from perspectives of gender, postcolonialism and the economy. The 11 plays are grouped under four heads: ?Polin', which addresses national loss since the Holocaust through discourses on victimhood and gui(A)pollonia, which uses of excerpts from Greek tragedies, novels by Jonathan Littell and J. M. Coetzee and reportage by Hanna Krall, provides the title for the anthology as it encapsulates the key subjects, conflicts and dilemmas prominent in the Polish theatre of the last decade. The substantive introduction to the anthology provides the historical and political framework for the collected texts, the foreword explains the scope of the international collaboration that produced the translations in this volume, while the accompanying DVD shows select scenes from the original Polish productions.

Author : Bryce Lease
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781526101051

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After '89 by Bryce Lease Pdf

After '89 takes as its subject the dynamic new range of performance practices that have been developed since the demise of communism in the flourishing theatrical landscape of Poland. After 1989, the theatre has retained its historical role as the crucial space for debating and interrogating cultural and political identities. Providing access to scholarship and criticism not readily accessible to an English-speaking readership, this study surveys the rebirth of the theatre as a site of public intervention and social criticism since the establishment of democracy and the proliferation of theatre makers that have flaunted cultural commonplaces and begged new questions of Polish culture. Lease argues that the most significant change in performance practice after 1989 has been from opposition to the state to a more pluralistic practice that engages with marginalized identities purposefully left out of the rhetoric of freedom and independence.

Author : Magdalena Kubow
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476670522

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Poland and the Holocaust in the Polish-American Press, 1926-1945 by Magdalena Kubow Pdf

Contrary to the common notion that news regarding the unfolding Holocaust was unavailable or unreliable, news from Europe was often communicated to North American Poles through the Polish-language press. This work engages with the origins debate and demonstrates that the Polish-language press covered seminal issues during the interwar years, the war, and the Holocaust extensively on their front and main story pages, and were extremely responsive, professional, and vocal in their journalism. From Polish-Jewish relations, to the cause of the Second World War and subsequently the development of genocide-related policy, North American Poles, had a different perspective from mainstream society on the causes and effects of what was happening. New research for this book examines attitudes toward Jews prior to and during the Holocaust, and how information on such attitudes was disseminated. It utilizes selected Polish newspapers of the period 1926-1945, predominantly the Republika-Gornik, as well as survivor testimony.

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137000613

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Staging Holocaust Resistance by Gene A. Plunka Pdf

Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. This comparative drama study examines a variety of international plays - some quite well-known, others more obscure - that focus on collective or individual defiance of the Nazis.

Author : Maurizio Cinquegrani
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474403597

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Journey to Poland by Maurizio Cinquegrani Pdf

Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literature

Author : F. C. DeCoste,Bernard Schwartz
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0888643373

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The Holocaust's Ghost by F. C. DeCoste,Bernard Schwartz Pdf

Numerous scholars explore the moral, aesthetic, and political outcomes of the Holocuast from the perspectives of various academic backgrounds, including: art, literature, political science, education and history.

Author : Maurizio Cinquegrani
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474403580

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Journey to Poland by Maurizio Cinquegrani Pdf

Journey to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polish Republic.