5/18/2023 0 Comments Copenhagen frayn![]() ![]() TONY AWARD WINNER - An explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel. It might also lead to a wider appreciation of a new level of historiography in which documents (such as the recently released draft letters by Bohr to Heisenberg) are neither ‘authorities’ nor ‘witnesses’ but simply traces of past processes whose reconstruction and contextualisation is the task of the historian. Buy a cheap copy of Copenhagen book by Michael Frayn. Together they had revolutionized atomic science in the 1920s, but now they were on opposite sides of a world war. This break with tenets of classical dramaturgy such as the ‘uniqueness’ and ‘separability’ of the stage characters parallels strange features of the quantum world. 112 pages 19 cm 'In 1941 German physicist Werner Heisenberg went to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. Instead of advocating one amongst a multitude of widely di.ering reconstructions of what ‘really’ happened at a meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg in occupied Copenhagen in September 1941, Frayn’s piece enacts three somewhat plausible versions one after another. Why Heisenberg went to Copenhagen and what he wanted to say to Bohr are questions that have exercised historians ever since. ![]() This paper analyses one of its central characteristics, namely what I have termed ‘historical polyphony’. 31 (2002) Michael Frayn’s play ‘Copenhagen’, which premiered in 1998, has attracted much attention and is certainly one of the most intriguing plays taking its inspiration from the history of science. ![]()
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