At the end of January, the documentary “Stollen in den Dachsteinkalk” caused a stir when it was first broadcast on ORF III, as it is the first cinematic review of the secret “Zement” armaments project and the Ebensee concentration camp. The filmmakers Andreas Kurz (director), Mario Hengster (production and camera) and Robert Breber (animation) come from Attnang-Puchheim and Timelkam. In addition to good reviews, the film team promptly received a threat of lawsuits from Ebensee, and the cinema premiere had to be postponed due to corona. “Stollen in den Dachsteinkalk” (including new film and photo material about the Ebenseer Glöckler during National Socialism) will finally be presented tomorrow in the Ebensee cinema. Start is at 8 p.m. The film will be shown two more times in cinemas on Friday and Saturday (8 p.m. each day).
After long research and a chance find, director Kurz managed to bring the scattered parts of the famous Ebensee concentration camp diary back together in autumn 2021. It was written by Drahomír Bárta, who was imprisoned in Ebensee concentration camp between November 1943 and May 1945 and had to work as the third camp clerk. Vit Bárta, Drahomír Bárta’s son, is bringing the original of the diary with him from Prague tomorrow to the film presentation. The correspondence between Drahomír Bárta, his parents in Prague and his fiancé in the Auschwitz concentration camp, discovered in the course of the filming, will also be shown in the original for the first time. The presentation will be followed by a top-class panel discussion – with Günter Kaindlstorfer, Karin Moser, Wolfgang Quatember and director Andreas Kurz.
The DVD for the film is now available in the Contemporary History Museum in Ebensee, in the Attnang-Puchheim city library, in the bookshops Neudorfer and Schachtner (Vöcklabruck), poetenblau (Gmunden) and kontro-vers (Bad Ischl) as well as online www.hengster.tv available.
event on Saturday
The celebration of the 77th anniversary of the liberation by American troops will begin at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday at the former concentration camp in Ebensee. Survivors and relatives of the victims will take part. After two years of the pandemic, this celebration will take place again in the usual setting for the first time. information on this www.memorial-ebensee.at
Source: Nachrichten
