Camp in Auschwitz? Theatre as the Medium of Memory in Works of Marian Pankowski
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25 October 2017
3:50 PM – 5:30 PM - room G01, FF MU, Gorkého 7, 60200 Brno
Marian Pankowski, Polish novelist, playwright and an Auschwitz survivor who spent most of his life in Brussels, will be presented in a lecture by dr. Agata Chałupnik (Institute of Polish Culture, University in Warsaw). The style of his camp memories is unique. Pankowski confronts the aesthetics of the sublime and the topos of „the inexpressible” with the aesthetics of the obscenity. The pictures he uses are often drastic and grotesque. His memoryof the camp is embodied and sensual. Quite often he uses in his plays the idea of „theatre inside theatre”, thereby exposing theatricality of the represented world and the „theatrical” nature of the camp itself.
Agata Chałupnik, PhD. has an academic position at the Institute of Polish Culture at The University of Warsaw. Recent fields of interest are women in history of Polish theatre and a theatre as the medium of memory.
- Organized by
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Department of Theatre Studies (Faculty of Arts)
- Responsibility
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Mgr. Eliška Kubartová, Ph.D.
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