Camp in Auschwitz? Theatre as the medium of
memory in works of Marian Pankowski
Agata Chałupnik, PhD
(Instytut Kultury Polskiej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego)
Wed 25 Oct 2017, 15.50–17.30 pm
Brno, Gorkého 7, building G, room G 01
“Camp in Auschwitz? No, it is not a pun. Or maybe it is?”
In her lecture, dr. Agata Chałupnik examines the
works of Marian Pankowski, Polish novelist,
playwright and an Auschwitz survivor who spent
most of his life in Brussels. 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.
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