The play is based on Anna Hájková's oral history interviews with Margot Heuman from 2018 and 2019. Occasionally, the text has been minimally edited for clarity. We follow the concept of documentary theater as put forward by Eva Schöck Quinteros's "Aus den Akten auf die Bühne."
Copyright:
All images used are free copyright, apart from the archive of ITS Arolsen; Bundesarchiv Zwischenarchiv Hoppegarten; Initiative Dessauer Ufer; USHMM; Terezín Memorial; Leo Baeck Institute; maps of Theresienstadt ghetto (Albane Duvillier) and Anna Hájková's archive.
If anyone is interested in exploring Margot Heuman and Queer History of the Holocaust in greater depth, please check out these publications:
Anna Hájková, Fredy Hirsch's Lover, Tablet, 2019.
Anna Hájková, How we've suppressed the Queer History of the Holocaust, Haaretz, 2019.
Anna Hájková, Queer History and the Holocaust, Notches, 2019.
Anna Hájková, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt, 2020.
Anna Hájková, Why we need a Queer History of the Holocaust, Novara Media, 2020.
For anyone interested in the representation of the Holocaust on stage, please have a look at these articles:
Erika Hughes, The Holocaust in Contemporary Drama and Performance for Young Audiences, Youth Theatre Journal (2011), 51-62.
Erika Hughes, Defining the Child: Taboos of Fear and Age Appropriateness in Youth Holocaust Drama, in International Essays on Theatre for Youth Audiences ed. by Manon van der Water, pp. 69-84 (2012).
Copyright:
All images used are free copyright, apart from the archive of ITS Arolsen; Bundesarchiv Zwischenarchiv Hoppegarten; Initiative Dessauer Ufer; USHMM; Terezín Memorial; Leo Baeck Institute; maps of Theresienstadt ghetto (Albane Duvillier) and Anna Hájková's archive.
If anyone is interested in exploring Margot Heuman and Queer History of the Holocaust in greater depth, please check out these publications:
Anna Hájková, Fredy Hirsch's Lover, Tablet, 2019.
Anna Hájková, How we've suppressed the Queer History of the Holocaust, Haaretz, 2019.
Anna Hájková, Queer History and the Holocaust, Notches, 2019.
Anna Hájková, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt, 2020.
Anna Hájková, Why we need a Queer History of the Holocaust, Novara Media, 2020.
For anyone interested in the representation of the Holocaust on stage, please have a look at these articles:
Erika Hughes, The Holocaust in Contemporary Drama and Performance for Young Audiences, Youth Theatre Journal (2011), 51-62.
Erika Hughes, Defining the Child: Taboos of Fear and Age Appropriateness in Youth Holocaust Drama, in International Essays on Theatre for Youth Audiences ed. by Manon van der Water, pp. 69-84 (2012).
Acknowledgments:
Thanks to Warwick Impact Fund for their generous support of this project.
Thanks to Joshua Baumring-Gledhill for the web design and Filip Kraus for publicity design.
Thanks to Warwick Impact Fund for their generous support of this project.
Thanks to Joshua Baumring-Gledhill for the web design and Filip Kraus for publicity design.
