Theatre performance: A German Life – 33rd Primorska Summer Festival
Location: Gravisi Buttorai Palace, 10 Osvobodilna fronta Street, Koper
Organizer: Primorska Summer Festival
Time: 9.30 pm
The text addresses one of the darkest chapters of European history, Germany’s prewar and wartime period, which was pushed into collective silence for many years because of the horrors committed during that time.
The monodrama is based on the testimony of Brunhilde Pomsel, who began working in 1942 as a stenographer and secretary at the heart of the propaganda apparatus led by the then Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.
For many years, she maintained that she had not understood the full brutality of the regime. On the occasion of her one hundredth birthday, however, she spoke publicly for the first time about Goebbels and her role at the ministry.
The text thus offers a glimpse behind the scenes of German life at the time, particularly into the mechanisms of adaptation that allowed evil to become part of everyday life. At the same time, it warns that the question of responsibility does not belong only to the past, but also to the present and the future.
Performed by: Marijana Brecelj
Production: ŠKUC Theatre, Pionirski teater, Zavod Kolaž
