Productions:

	Wallstrasse 13	BACK
	by Bente Kahan manuscript & director: Scenography: With: Barbara Mother/Singer Father/Werner/Theatre Director Musicians: Bente Kahan Anna Weber/Helge Hoff Monsen Marzena Oberkorn/Bente Kahan Dorota Abbe Igor Pietraszewski Tomasz Kasiukewicz, Igor Pietraszewski, Artur Dominik, Jacek Wegrzynowski The German and English version performed by Bente Kahan as a monodrama.
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	"Wallstrasse 13" links present reality with a powerful past. The Polish, Jewish character Barbara (a ficitve character), is born in a townhouse in Wroclaw on Wlodkowica Street 13, formerly Wallstrasse 13 in the German city Breslau. In 1968, 10 years old, she leaves Poland because of an anti-semittic campaign organized by the communist regime. Her father remained in the country, and first when he dies, Barbara returns to her hometown. She is then a grown up woman, and is suddenly confronted with her and her parents past through documents and photos found in her father's flat. A photo leads her also to Leontine Dambitsch, the flat's pre-war resident. The audience is witness to Barabra's determination to confront the past and to recreate the dramatic human lives and times that came before her. We join Barbara on a historical journey through the German Jewish community of Breslau in the 1930's and the Polish Jewish community of Wroclaw in 1946-68. A wide variety of archival material, as well as photos from private albums, are presented on a multi-media set during the performance. Repertoir from the "Breslau Jewish Culture Guild" (1935-41) and the "Yiddish Theatre of Lower Silesia" (1946-68) including songs in German, Yiddish and Polish, are integral parts of the play.