The purchase
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| Radio play from Germany | |
| Year of production | 2013 |
| publication | 25./26. May 2013 |
| genre | radio play |
| Duration | 68 min |
| production | WDR , BR , Deutschlandfunk , Schauspiel Köln |
| Contributors | |
| author | Paul Plamper |
| Director | Paul Plamper (assistance: Janina Druschky) |
| music | Plexiq, The Zabots, Teun Leemreijze |
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The purchase is a radio play by Paul Plamper and was recorded in artificial head stereophony. The first broadcast took place in two parts on May 25 and 26, 2013 on WDR 3 radio. In terms of content, the piece merges the topics of gentrification , real estate speculation and happiness in life .
content
The focus of the radio play is on two couples whose friendship and later enmity are linked to the voluntary-involuntary sale of a Berlin condominium . The story is told reversed in time, in individual scenes that are clearly separated from each other by a short break.
The radio play begins with a real estate agent visiting an apartment for sale with interested parties. First of all, Achim and Britta have owned this apartment for 20 years. Achim is a carpenter and has individually designed the interior with furniture made from selected types of wood. At a meeting of the two with Claire and Dirk, with whom they are easy friends, Achim, who sees himself as a globetrotter , explains that he is not attached to property, for example to the apartment. Claire, on the other hand, regrets that she and her partner Dirk have not taken care of housing for a long time.
At a later meeting in a café, Dirk writes on a napkin the amount that he and Claire are willing to pay for the apartment. Achim and Britta leave this meeting approvingly and enthusiastically. In retrospect, they put their desire to sell again, but Dirk then sued them. Since the word "contract" was on the napkin, it was a legally binding preliminary contract .
The legal dispute is followed by the sale of the apartment. Six months later, however, the relationship between Claire and Dirk seems to have broken up. Claire is forced to sell the apartment again - the radio play originally began with the inspection of the agent and the prospective buyers, which is chronologically at the end of the story. During this inspection, the bullying Achim appears briefly. He's now back from the trip around the world that he took with the money for the apartment and is now mobbing against Claire and Dirk, whom he portrays as real estate speculators and representatives of the gentrification of the district.
The knotweed as a symbol
A knotweed belonging to the apartment and visible from afar is symbolically mentioned throughout the entire radio play . At the beginning (i.e. chronologically at the end of the story) the perishing and therefore necessary disposal of the plant is regretted, at the end (i.e. the beginning of the story) its splendor is praised. Whether the death of the knotweed due to the bleaching agent poured into it was an accident or was intended by Achim remains to be seen, it is testimony against testimony.
Awards
The purchase was named radio play of the month in May 2013 and then radio play of the year on the hr2 audio book top list . In November 2013, the radio play was also awarded the ARD German Radio Play Prize.
criticism
Eva-Maria Lenz praises in the magazine epd medien Plampers “the art of developing all controversies, conflicts and ambivalences realistically in such a way that they hardly allow a clear solution or a clear judgment.” Alexander Cammann judges similarly in Die Zeit : “Good and bad are by no means clearly distributed; all turn out to be unsympathetic types. "
Jens Bisky writes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about the decision to reverse the individual scenes in time : “The backward telling ironizes the overly comfortable positions of gentrification critics who follow the principle of anciency, defend conditions of yore, the neighborhood with its workforce from yesteryear back then."
Web links
- The purchase ( memento of December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the WDR 3 website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eva-Maria Lenz: The happiness of life. epd medien, June 7, 2013. (PDF; 210 kB)
- ↑ Alexander Cammann: That's how we talk today! Die Zeit, November 7th, 2013.
- ↑ Jens Bisky : 100 percent greed per square meter. Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 7, 2013 (PDF; 110 kB)