Eichmann

DiamantFabriek

2020

Eichmann. An opera about free will is a production in response to the rekindled debate about free will and the book Eichmann in Jerusalem. A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt. An opera as an encounter between neurophilosophy, music and theatre, written by writer/director Bo Tarenskeen and composer Maria Alejandra Castro Espejo.

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In her controversial reportage, Hannah Arendt suggested the idea that people like Eichmann, who have many misdeeds on their conscience, are not devils but banal executors of what they are told. Eichmann is still a symbol of so-called 'desk killers': obedient office clerks who do not think about the terrible consequences of their actions and have no sense of guilt or responsibility about them afterwards. The opera asks itself the question out loud: what goes on in the minds of people who don't think?