SNOW NEGATIVES
Wetzler, Vrba, Schulman, Lux
International Co-production (Slovakia – Poland – Germany)
NEGATYW - Schulman
Teatr JK Opole Poľsko
SNOW NEGATIVES - Lux
Deutsches Theater Berlin Nemecko
NEGATÍVY SNEHU - Wetzler, Vrba
Divadlo Jána Palárika Trnava Slovensko
About the Project
Where does hatred begin? Why do we tend to downplay evil or remain indifferent to injustice? Are we wiser and more resilient than our predecessors? Is war an inevitable condition of human society? If not, what happens next? These questions linger as the final credits roll.
"To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric."
With this provocation, German philosopher Theodor Adorno urged the artistic community to respond to the horrors and suffering of the most devastating genocide in human history.
Snow Negatives: Wetzler, Vrba, Schulman, Lux, directed by Dávid Paška, follows the fates of three individuals who stood against fascism. In 1936, actor Štefan Lux travels to Geneva to protest Nazi Germany. In 1943, Jewish photographer Faye Schulman buries her precious photographic negatives for safekeeping. In 1944, writers Alfréd Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba escape from a concentration camp and document one of the most crucial testimonies of the twentieth century.
The performance is an international co-production commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. It was developed as a collaborative project between JK Opole Theatre (Poland) and Ján Palárik Theatre in Trnava (Slovakia), with the support of the Digital Theatre Academy in Dortmund (Germany).
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