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The temporary exhibition Polish theatre in the Wehrmacht prisoner-of-war camps (1939-1945) will be presented at The City Museum “Gerhart Hauptmann’s House” in Jelenia Góra. The exhibition will be displayed there until the end of October.

The exhibition features, among other things, costume sketches, performance scripts, photographs of prisoner-cum-actors and objects related to theatre activities, proves that barbed wire was not an obstacle for human imagination and ingenuity in the pursuit of survival, which the theatre helped prisoners-of-war to achieve.

Equally interesting is the place where our exhibition is displayed. The City Museum "Gerhart Hauptmann’s House" is located in the villa of the German writer Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature. Visitors can enjoy the writer's study, library, fireplace room, dining room and the fully polychrome decorated (from 1922) hall known as the "Paradise Hall", as well as other memorabilia relating to the life and work of the Nobel Prize winner: fragments of correspondence, first editions of books, documents, etc.

We encourage you to visit this place and our exhibition.

Photo courtesy of The City Museum “Gerhart Hauptmann’s House”