The paper considers contradictions in the way memory and memoirs work in the play Copenhagen by the famous British author Michael Frayn. It exploits many well-known facts concerning the meeting-up
of the physicists Bohr and Heisenberg in 1941, in Copenhagen, then occupied by Nazis. It interprets those facts, though, from the viewpoint of Frayn’s story and the time-layers provided both by the text and the contexts it triggered. What was the true purpose of the meeting?
Keywords
memories; physicists; atomic bomb; Nazi Germany; Copenhagen.