Eichmann's shadow: Theater premiere in Oberhausen enthusiastic and provoked!

Today is the 15.03.2025

Date: 15.03.2025 - Source 1 ( https://nachtkritik.de/nachttritiken/deutschland/nordrhein-westfalen/oberhausen/bruder-oberhausen/bruder-chister-ichmann-eichmann-then-kathrin-maedler-heinar-kipphardt-lukas-hammerstein ) 2025
-Adolf Eichmann: Born in 1906 in Solingen, eldest son of a Protestant family, without graduation, early Nazi member, low rank.
- Responsible for the organization of the transports of Jewish people in extermination camp.
- caught in Jerusalem in Jerusalem in 1960 in Argentina, sent to death in 1962 and executed in 1962.
- Heinar Kipphardt processed the interrogation protocols into a documentary text, premiered in 1983, title: "Brother Eichmann".
- Oberhausen director Kathrin Mädler combines "Brother Eichmann" with a new text by Lukas Hammerstein, title: "Siblings Eichmann".
- Staging takes place on the big stage of the theater without a auditorium.
- Hannah Arendt observed the process and developed the thesis of the "banality of evil".
- Eichmann staged himself in the process as an innocent victim of an unreasonable dynamic.
- Eichmann claimed not to personally kill Jews or to have given the command.
- Staging of Kathrin Mädler focuses on grotesque and sarcastic aspects of the event.
- The audience sits around the playing area in a square, with a monumental burial mound in the middle.
- Torsten Bauer plays Eichmann, who fluctuates between gentle willingness to cooperate and outraged morality.
- Lukas Hammerstein addresses the repression and coping in post -war Germany in his text.
- Premiere on March 14, 2025, duration: 3 hours 10 minutes, including a break.
-Ensemble: Torsten Bauer, Nadja Bruder, Oliver El-Fayoumy, Anke Fonferek, Regina Leenders, Anna Polke, Philipp Quest, Clara Schwinning, Klaus Zwick.

SOURCE 2 ( ):
- "Eichmann in Jerusalem. A report of the banality of evil" is a book by Hannah Arendt, published 1963.
- The book is based on the trial against Adolf Eichmann, who took place in Jerusalem in 1961.
- Arendt observed the process as a reporter for the magazine The New Yorker.
- she pursued the interrogation of witnesses and the process of the process until August 1961.
- Your impressions were published in five editions of the New Yorker before they appeared in book form.
- The first German translation appeared in 1964 with significant changes compared to the original English edition.
- Arendt describes Eichmann as "normal person" who did not show excessive anti -Semitism and fulfilled his "duty".
- She argues that Eichmann's inability to self -employed thinking and the use of clichéd phrases led to his crimes.
- The book contains process documents, country reports and Arendt's personal reflections on Eichmann and the crimes of the Nazis.
- Arendt criticizes the role of Jewish officials during the Holocaust, which led to violent controversy.
- The term "banality of evil" was often misunderstood; Arendt did not want to trivialize the crimes.
- The controversy around the book continued to this day, especially with regard to Arendt's analysis of Jewish collaboration.
- Arendt emphasizes that the actions of the Nazis should be regarded as "crimes against humanity".
- The book was published in several editions, each contained additional preliminary words and comments.
- Arendt concluded with the establishment that the process in Jerusalem was a necessary consequence of the Nuremberg processes.

Source 3 ( https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_Uni_ulm/hsz/archiv/kurschdädzen/pdb_arendt.pdf ):
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