Piotr Peter Lachmann

He is a Polish-German writer and director of video-theatre and film.

Born in 1935 in Gleiwitz, Germany (present day Gliwice, Poland), the central theme of his work has consistently been memory and trauma, seen through the prism of his own personal and political experience.

Published since the 1960s as a poet, essayist, author of radio plays and translator, in 1985 with actress Jolanta Lothe he founded in Warsaw the Lothe Lachmann Videoteatr Poza (Videotheatre Beyond), Poland’s first experimental laboratory for intermedial theatre.

Hamlet gliwicki was first staged by Videoteatr Poza in Gliwice and Warsaw in 2006.