Paul Vickers

Postdoctoral Researcher, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Giessen, Germany

  • About

    I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Giessen University (Germany) working in history and cultural studies. My current projects explore urban history in Poland and Ukraine; representations of the Polish-German past in film and television; and relations between power, memory and censorship. My PhD from the University of Glasgow explored ordinary Poles' life stories written under communism, focusing on experiences of voluntary and forced migration. I have worked as a translator, focusing on theatre studies, with the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, the Centre For Performance Research, Aberystwyth, and with the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).

  • Professional activities

    translating, research

  • Areas of interest

    theatre & memory, theatre & performance studies, Polish theatre, Ukrainian theatre, German theatre, cultural memory, popular memory, vernacular memory, autobiography, biography, censorship, social history, cultural history, historiography, translation, migration

  • Working languages

    English, Polish, German, Ukrainian

Contact

  • E-mail

    p.a.vickers@gmail.com

Mailing address

  • Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
    Alter Steinbacher Weg 38

  • City

    Giessen

  • Postcode

    D-35394

  • Country

    Germany

Featured Work

<p>Staging Memories of Forced Migration in Jan Klata's <em>Transfer!</em></p>

Article

Open Access Peer Reviewed

Staging Memories of Forced Migration in Jan Klata's Transfer!

by Paul Vickers

  • Publishing series

    Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)

  • Keywords

    directing memory Polish identity Second World War Jan Klata Transfer! Wrocław theatre migration Polish-German relations testimony Yalta collective remembering
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<p>Polish Theatre Perspectives 1</p>

Journal

Open Access Peer Reviewed Translation Reviewed

Polish Theatre Perspectives 1

Edited by Duncan Jamieson and Adela Karsznia

  • Publishing series

    Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)

  • Keywords

    Tadeusz Kantor Polish theatre cross-cultural directing memory Krzysztof Warlikowski Nowy Teatr TR Warszawa Jacek Poniedziałek Magdalena Cielecka Piotr Gruszczyński Krystian Lupa ensemble acting William Shakespeare Jedwabne Jan T. Gross Hanna Krall Polish Jewish culture Polish identity Second World War Greek tragedy Jan Klata migration Andrzej Wajda film Germany Russia Anatoli Vassiliev documentation exclusion minority identities
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<p>Dangerous Island</p>

Review

Open Access Translation Reviewed

Dangerous Island

by Joanna Wichowska

  • Publishing series

    Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)

  • Keywords

    Krzysztof Warlikowski Nowy Teatr TR Warszawa The Tempest William Shakespeare Jedwabne Jan T. Gross
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<p>A Commentary on Andrzej Sapija's <em>'The Return of Odysseus' by Tadeusz Kantor: Notes from Rehearsals</em></p>

Article

Open Access Peer Reviewed Translation Reviewed

A Commentary on Andrzej Sapija's 'The Return of Odysseus' by Tadeusz Kantor: Notes from Rehearsals

by Katarzyna Tokarska-Stangret

  • Publishing series

    Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)

  • Keywords

    Tadeusz Kantor Cricot 2 Theatre of Death memory drawings Wielopole The Return of Odysseus Second World War I Shall Never Return Andrzej Sapija emballage mannequins Underground Theatre Stanisław Wyspiański
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Connections

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Duncan Jamieson

Co-Director, Culture Hub

London, UK

  • Working languages

    English, Spanish, French, Polish, Polish (sign), Italian

  • Professional activities

    research, editing, publishing, translating, directing, web development

  • Areas of interest

    theatre & performance studies, cross-cultural performance, ethics, acting, directing, rehearsal practices, performer training, psychophysical performance, practice research, cultural translation, cognitive studies, decision making, gender studies, theatre history, historiography, contemporary philosophy, digital culture, social & cultural networks, memory studies, Polish theatre, Polish culture, Jerzy Grotowski, Laboratory Theatre, Tadeusz Kantor, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Krystian Lupa, Latin American performance
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Adela Karsznia

Co-Director, Culture Hub

London, UK

  • Working languages

    Polish, Polish (sign), English, French, Yiddish

  • Professional activities

    editing, translating, publishing, research, lecturing, web development

  • Areas of interest

    cross-cultural performance, theatre & performance studies, Polish theatre, literature, Polish identity, theatre history, disability culture, gender & performance, memory studies
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Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)

publisher, resource, nonprofit organization

London, UK

  • Working languages

    English, Polish

  • Professional activities

    publishing

  • Areas of interest

    Polish theatre, theatre, performance, drama, acting, directing, performer training
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Grotowski Institute

cultural centre, archive, publisher, studio, performance venue

Wrocław, Poland

  • Working languages

    Polish, English, French, Italian

  • Professional activities

    performances, seminars, publishing, research

  • Areas of interest

    Jerzy Grotowski, Laboratory Theatre, theatre, performance
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Joanna Wichowska

Kraków, Poland

  • Working languages

    Polish, English

  • Professional activities

    theatre criticism, editing

  • Areas of interest

    Polish theatre
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Tadeusz Kornaś

Professor, Jagiellonian University

Kraków, Poland

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Affiliations

  • Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany

    Postdoctoral Researcher (history and cultural studies)

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