The Second Life of Tatenberg Camp

Second Life of Tatenberg Camp, The (La Deuxième Existence du camp de Tatenberg)

    Author: Armand Gatti

    First Performance: 1962, Lyons

    Published: 1962

    First English Translation: 2000

    Genre: Pol. drama in 2 acts; French prose

    Setting: Fairground at Grein, Prater in Vienna, 1960s, Tatenberg Camp, 1950s

    Cast: 6m, 2f, 3 puppets (m), extras

Scenes alternate between a fairground, in which Hildegard Frölick (29) presents puppets which summon memories of the past, and flashbacks to the concentration camp of Tatenberg, where some former inmates still live: Abel Antokokoletz (60), Cracovian Jew, probably a collaborator, now employed by Frau Frölick; Ilya Moïssevitch (45), Baltic Jew; Gregori Kravchenko (30), a Ukrainian boxer; and Manuel Rodriguez (52), a Spanish Republican. We also encounter...

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