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HISTORY TILT ? HANS-WERNER KROESINGER
Premiere 03 October, also showing 05 until 08 October / 20 h / HAU 3
On 15 March 1921, at around 11am at the Hardenbergstrasse 17 in Berlin / Charottenburg a young Armenian fires a lethal shot at the former Turkish Minister of the Interior and Great Vizier Talaat Pascha. Passers-by corner and beat up the assassin. He is believed to have shouted the following words: "Me Armenian, he Turkish, this not Germany?s problem." Shortly afterwards a German court proves the accused not guilty of murder and drops the proceedings. Reports by German diplomats and members of the armed forces on the genocide of the Armenians can be found in documents from the political archive of the Foreign Ministry. Those documents were only destined for "domestic use". They were never supposed to be published and may be considered the most reliable sources concerning the events at that time. These files are the starting-point for "HISTORY TILT", a play about the silence that surrounds the genocide of the Armenians in 1915/16. Further points of reference to Kroesinger?s play are school books from Brandenburg, printed in 2005, Franz Werfel?s "Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh" and the film "Abdul the Dammed".
A production by HAU, sponsored with funds from the Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur Berlin
Premiere 03 October, also showing 05 until 08 October / 20 h / HAU 3
On 15 March 1921, at around 11am at the Hardenbergstrasse 17 in Berlin / Charottenburg a young Armenian fires a lethal shot at the former Turkish Minister of the Interior and Great Vizier Talaat Pascha. Passers-by corner and beat up the assassin. He is believed to have shouted the following words: "Me Armenian, he Turkish, this not Germany?s problem." Shortly afterwards a German court proves the accused not guilty of murder and drops the proceedings. Reports by German diplomats and members of the armed forces on the genocide of the Armenians can be found in documents from the political archive of the Foreign Ministry. Those documents were only destined for "domestic use". They were never supposed to be published and may be considered the most reliable sources concerning the events at that time. These files are the starting-point for "HISTORY TILT", a play about the silence that surrounds the genocide of the Armenians in 1915/16. Further points of reference to Kroesinger?s play are school books from Brandenburg, printed in 2005, Franz Werfel?s "Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh" and the film "Abdul the Dammed".
A production by HAU, sponsored with funds from the Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur Berlin