The Penumbra Theatre Company Records' Production Records Collection contains materials related to Penumbra's productions records from various plays, set designs, costume designs, oversized production scripts, and programs.
Creator:
Penumbra Theatre Company
Created:
1990
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature.
The Penumbra Theatre Company Records' Production Records Collection contains materials related to Penumbra's productions records from various plays, set designs, costume designs, oversized production scripts, and programs.
Creator:
Penumbra Theatre Company
Created:
1990
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature.
Hirschberger created a visual pun combining the name of the ship and the name of a famous Blues song. The "Blues" is a genre of music that originated among African-Americans in the Deep South, blending African and European Folk tunes, incorporating chants, spirituals and work songs (which during slavery were sometimes used to convey codes and me...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Melting the tallow heretics,Ousting the Jews.Their thick palls floatOver the cicatrix of Poland, burnt-outGermany.They do not die.Grey birds obsess my heart,Mouth-ash, ash of eye.They settle. On the highPrecipiceThat emptied one man into spaceThe ovens glowed like heavens, incandescent.It is a heart,This holocaust I walk in,O golden child the wo...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
The making of Hitler and the seduction of Germania was the direct result of the harsh conditions of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, imposed on Germany on the insistence of a vengeful France. The treaty was never ratified by the United States Senate. Hitler blamed all the ills that befell the Weimar Republic in 1922, 1923, and again in 1929 on the...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
This image is a variant of the "hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil" theme. The Catholic priest on the left has no mouth; the Rabbi in the center has no eyes; the Protestant Minister on the right has no ears. This is the artist's commentary on the indifference of the outside world toward genocide, especially by religious leadership.
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
The scene juxtaposes two images. In the foreground, there is a survivor in old age, holding a toy that evokes the images, fragments of memory, of those in his family, particularly children, who have been lost during the Holocaust. In the background, a woman with a child, possibly his wife, is going into the gas chambers, which were routinely lab...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
We have lived here in believingWhat we were taught:That things consist in their consistencyAnd we have built on this foundationA castle of playing cardsWith the appearance of appearancesWith shadows of shadows.- Miguel de UnamunoGerman Jews had lived for hundreds of years in Germany, making tremendous contributions to German science, industry, e...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.