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Production team
polip Festival
19:30 - 20:00
Official opening of the festival
20:00 - 21:30
Theater performance: The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner
Produced by: Collective Ma'louba in collaboration with Euro-Scene Leipzig, Factory International and Theater an der Ruhr.
By: Mudar Alhaggi
Directed by: Omar Elerian
Actors: Wael Kadour & Mohamad Al Rashi
Design: Jonas Vogt
Dramatic advice and analysis: Eric Altorfer
International Producer: Eckhard Thiemann
Venue
ODA Theater
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About the play:
"The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner" explores the true story of one of the most wanted Nazi criminals who escaped death. Instrumental in the deportation of over 100,000 charges to concentration camps and ghettos, Alois Brunner evades several arrest attempts – fleeing to Damascus which helped to change the course of other Syrian intelligence changes. Arriving in 21st century Berlin as a refugee, Syrian playwright Mudar Alhaggi discovers Brunner's discovery and begins to obsessively research it, before disappearing himself...
In this cast-led play, two parts are encountered that weave together fragments of Alhaggi's analysis, as personal observation, Internet history, truth and fiction collide. Weaving Syrian and German histories, "The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner" explores exile, accountability and political memory – and the complex threads that connect the past to the present.
