Der Bus nach Dachau

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A screenplay from the 1990s that was never adapted is the starting point for a surprising evening of theatre about the Dachau concentration camp. The stage is a film set in 1993, where a director and his actors rehearse scenes: The film is supposed to tell the story of a bus trip that former concentration camp prisoners from the Netherlands undertake to visit the Dachau memorial. They were all imprisoned there as resistance fighters between 1940 and 1945. Their flashbacks are planned to be captured on film as well. But how to portray the camp? What is allowed and what can be shown? And: How can we remember the war and the Shoah in the 21st century? What means, what stories, what forms can a theatre evening use to reach the young generation?