How do you stage the end of East Prussia?
This question was taken on by the team at the Jaracz Theatre in Olsztyn. Set in a city that was once German—and in a theatre originally built as the Treudanktheater to commemorate Germany’s plebiscite victory in the 1920s—the production unfolds in a space rich with historical layers. Reopened as a Polish stage in 1945, this venue becomes the haunting backdrop for All for Nothing, Walter Kempowski’s novel brought to life by director Weronika Szczawińska.
The play tells the story of Prussian nobility and their neighbors facing the collapse of their world in the brutal winter of 1945. Karolina travelled to Olsztyn to see how this apocalypse was brought to the stage—and what it means to perform it in a place that carries such a complex past.
Link to the blog post you can find here.