Srebrenica

Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 1995: over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim boys and men are murdered in Srebrenica within five days, despite the town being a UN protection zone at the time. More than 20 years later, photographer Armin Smailovic and director Branko Šimić, both from Bosnia and Herzegovina, set out in search of traces with their documentary theater project. The result is a minimalist theater composition in the field of tension between victim - perpetrator - spectator.
Srebrenica - "I counted my remaining life in seconds ..." is based on the biographies of three men: a survivor of the genocide, one of the main witnesses before The Hague Tribunal, a Dutch UN soldier who was stationed in the town in 1995, and a soldier from the Bosnian-Serb commando unit who now lives with a completely new identity.
Photographer Armin Smailovic has retold the biographies of the witnesses in thousands of photographs, which form the aesthetic basis of the project. Smailovic conducted personal interviews; transcripts of the testimonies in The Hague complete the collection of material. Srebrenica is a project between reporting, personal fate and political meta-level, which brings the dimension of the largest war crime in Europe since the Second World War to the stage and illuminates its fatal consequences for the political world (dis)order of the last 30 years. With the engagement of Jens Harzer, the Berliner Ensemble is taking over the successful production from the Thalia Theater Hamburg into its own repertoire.