Performans żołnierza Wielkiej Wojny
Performance by a Soldier of the Great War

Summary/Abstract: Dotora Sajewska analyses Karol Radziszewski’s film MS101, which was made in 2012 and presents the story of the ongoing relationship during First World War Kraków between soldier-philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and poet Georg Trakl. Sajewska opines that the film is a response to the erasure of memories of the First World War in Polish contemporary art. A good example of the process of experiences of the Great War being intercepted by the mythology surrounding the Second World War is, in her view, the reception given to Tadeusz Kantor’s play Wielopole, Wielopole. In her view, the question of remembering the First World War may be crucial for understanding the issues tackled by Kantor’s theatre and is represented by the figure of a soldier whose body has performative power.

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