About

Album Karla Höckera is a documentary theatre project based on the private photo album of the Auschwitz concentration camp Adjutant Karl Höcker. The project 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 performance explores the all-too-human men and women who carried out the final solution. Album Karla Höckera has been presented fifty times across Poland including the Malta Festival, Confrontations Festival, Sopot Non-Fiction Festival, Pociag do Miasta, Teatr Polska, and Polin The Museum of the Polish Jews in Warsaw. Internationally, it has been presented at the Festival De Liege (Liege), Chantiers D'Europe (Paris), Broader Horizons (Tianjin and Harbin China), theaterszene europa (Cologne), JW 3 Jewish Community Center (London)

Reviews

Review in English by Andrew Haydon Article in English in polishhistory.pl by Alan Lockwood Essay and Review by Alicja Rose in Kultura Liberalna Review by Anna Grahm Un Fautenil Pour Orchestra (in French) Review by Mireille Davidovici in Théâtre de blog CCTV China News (television program) Review in Polish by Małgorzata Bierejszyk

History

Director: Paul Bargetto Playwright: Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk Costumes: Agnieszka Kaczyńska Performed by: Helena Chorzelska / Julia Trembecka, Marta Król, Krzysztof Polkowski, Grzegorz Sierzputowski, Tomasz Sobczak Production: Agata Balcerzak and Marta Cienkowska Photos by Honorata Karapuda Originally produced by culture.pl, First presentation by Sopot Non-Fiction Festival, Premiere at Instytut Teatralny