Evening hour in late autumn
The evening hour in late autumn is a radio play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt that was written in 1957. The piece was first broadcast in March 1958 on Swiss radio DRS, Mr Korbes receives . This was probably Dürrenmatt's working title. Later, however, the title was changed to “evening hour in late autumn”.
content
The radio play begins with a description of the setting by the crime novel writer and Nobel Prize winner Maximilian Korbes, who at this point still appears as a first-person narrator.
He receives a visit from Mr. Fürchtegott Hofer - the name is as petty-bourgeois as the person. After a few introductions and several misunderstandings - Hofer is almost thrown out twice - this gets to the core of his concern: After his retirement, he began as a detective specializing in literature to examine Korbes' works for their criminalistic content. He finds a true background for all 22 novels, which he describes in detail for the first two. He also notices that Korbes lets all his murderers escape undetected and that these killers are extremely similar. Hofer's description of the murderers fits perfectly with Korbes' initial description of himself. Finally, Hofer adopts the writer on the head that he committed each of these murders himself. In return for his silence, he wants a pension from Korbes so that he can continue to travel after the admired and participate in his life.
At first Korbes is surprised and taken, admits the murders, but finally clarifies Hofer about the big mistake that can be found in his deliberations: Hofer assumed that he had found something that would not be known to anyone; But for a long time, according to Korbes, nobody has wanted to read inventions. He had to tell true stories to become the successful writer he is and continue to commit murders. According to Korbes, nobody really doubts that he is the real killer, and anyone who tried to drag him to court failed miserably. Korbes explains that the general public wants to experience the excitement, but also the vice and lawlessness through the writers, which everyday life no longer offers and so the writers have to exemplify this life. It goes so far that Korbes receives letters from all kinds of people who offer themselves as material for the next novel.
Finally he pulls out a gun and threatens Hofer because he needs new material and wants to write a radio play. As predicted by Korbes, nobody reacts to Hofer's cries for help, who then rushes out of the window. At the end, Korbes begins to dictate the description he heard at the beginning to his assistant Sebastian, a theology student.
broadcasts
In 1958 Dürrenmatt was awarded the Prix Italia for literature and dramaturgy for the radio play produced by ORF . Also in 1957 the NDR produced the radio play with Ernst Schröder and Willy Maertens in the leading roles. The first broadcast took place on March 7th of that year on NDR.
In one of the many productions of the radio play, Swiss radio DRS supervised the recording of the Swiss cabaret artist and film actor Walter Roderer in the role of the fear god Hofer; a role that fit perfectly with the otherwise staid roles Roderer. The radio play of the GDR produced the radio play in 1969, directed by Werner Grunow with Wolf Kaiser and Martin Flörchinger in the leading roles.
filming
The radio play was filmed for German television in 1988 under the title Abendstunde im Spätherbst , directed by August Everding with Mario Adorf as Korbes and Horst Bollmann as Hofer .
The radio play was filmed for Swiss television in 1958 under the title "Une soirée d'Automne", directed by Jean-Jacques Lagrange . (A production of the TSR )
Individual evidence
- ↑ An evening lesson in late autumn in the HörDat audio game database
- ↑ One evening on late autumn. Prix Italia for literary or dramatic programs - Friedrich Durrenmatt. (No longer available online.) In: Mediagallery. PRIX Italia, archived from the original on October 5, 2013 ; accessed on October 2, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ hoerspiele.dra.de: evening hour in late autumn, NDR 1957
- ↑ Reference to the broadcast on Radio DRS
