Lalka z łóżka 21 Đorđa Lebovicia, czyli trauma wojny i opresja wolności
Đorđe Lebović’s The Doll from Bed 21: War Trauma and the Oppression of Freedom

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the play The Doll from Bed 21 [Lutka sa kreveta broj 21] by Đorđe Lebović, who had co-authored A Heavenly Detachment (Nebeski odred, 1956) with Aleksandar Obrenović – the first play to address the Holocaust in Socialist Yugoslavia, which was first televised in Yugoslavia in 1966. In Poland the play was not performed, but in 1970 TVP showed a performance based on Lebović’s text. The play tackles forced prostitution in the camps as well as the women’s experiences after the war, including their stigmatization and hierarchization as victims as well as the tabuization of the entire subject. The main themes are the legal, ethical and often linguistic challenges faced by the postwar judicial system, as well as questions of victimization and heroical gender oppression.

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