Srebrenica

Over 20 years later, photographer Armin Smailovic and director Branko Šimić, both from Bosnia and Herzegovina, embarked on a search for traces with their documentary theater project. The result is a minimalist theater composition exploring the tension between victim, perpetrator, and audience.


"Srebrenica – "I counted my remaining life in seconds..." is based on the biographies of three men: a survivor of the genocide, one of the key witnesses before the Hague Tribunal, a Dutch UN soldier stationed in the city in 1995, and a soldier in the Bosnian Serb commando unit who now lives with a completely new identity.


Photographer Armin Smailovic retold the witnesses' biographies in thousands of photographs, which form the aesthetic basis of the project. Smailovic conducted personal interviews; transcripts of the statements made in The Hague complete the collection of material. Srebrenica is a project that combines reporting, personal fate, and a political meta-level, bringing the dimension of the greatest war crime in Europe since World War II to the stage and illuminating its fatal consequences for the political world (dis)order of the past 30 years.


With the engagement of Jens Harzer, the Berliner Ensemble is taking over the successful production from the Thalia Theater Hamburg. Repertoire.


WITH Vernesa Berbo, Jens Harzer. DIRECTED BY Branko Šimić


PHOTOGRAPH AND VIDEO DIRECTED BY Armin Smailovic


AUDIENCE TALK ON SREBRENICA ON NOVEMBER 21, FOLLOWING THE PERFORMANCE


WITH Vernesa Berbo, Jens Harzer, Branko Šimić, Armin Smailovic. MODERATED BY Lukas Nowak

Adapted from the Thalia Theater Hamburg