Theater Workshops:

Remembrance and Future

Scenic adaptation of a memorial visit

A three-national memorial visit

Period:

In Poland: April the 14^th to 22^th 2009 in Kraków and Oświęcim

In Germany: October the 15^th to 23^rd 2009 in Oldenburg  
                        January the 14^th to 23^rd 2010 in Oldenburg

In Ukraine: April the 2^nd to 10^th 2010
                        autumn 2010

Participants:

14 German participants + 1 teamer

14 Polish participants + 1 teamer

12 Ukrainian participants + 1 teamer

 Three-national Theater Workshops with Youth from Germany, Poland and the Ukraine. Memorial visit, scenic adaptation, interview with a contemporary witness, Theater Workshops, documentation movie.

Supervisors:

Theater - Director: Ulf Goerges (D), Irina Konchenkova (UA), Wieslaw Danielec(PL), Dettmar Koch (D).

The project will be partially sponsored by international youth organizations.

Theater Workshops for a "Culture of Remembrance" - part I in Poland (PL).

When students and teachers will be visiting the ancient extermination camp Auschwitz, there will be a large number of different expectations. Will the students return after a metamorphosis as upright democrats?

By which expectations the teacher is planning the visit of the memorial Auschwitz, which false expectations and dangers can appear in the evaluation of the visit?

 Not only the visit of the memorial has a certain meaning. Although by looking at each other and the reactions of the participants there will give certain results.

 Based on this results, a three-national discussion of the visit of the ancient extermination camp of that day will follow. As well there will be a first common scenic interpretation and improvisation. This first confrontation and reflection will set the base for the interview with a contemporary witness, who has been an actor and director himself. His perspective will be a support the work of the participants. Developed will be a theater play, that will have it's premier in the Youth Meeting Center Oswiecim in multi language.

The process and play will be captured and documented by the film crew.