The Patriot (Drama)
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| Title: | The Patriot |
| Genus: | drama |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Felix Mitterer |
| Publishing year: | 2008 |
| Premiere: | November 13, 2008 |
| Place of premiere: | StadtTheater walfischgasse |
The Patriot is a one-man play by the Austrian playwright Felix Mitterer about the Austrian bomb bomber Franz Fuchs (1949–2000).
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The assassin Franz Fuchs, who was responsible for a series of xenophobic letter and pipe bomb attacks between 1993 and 1996, is the only character in Mitterer's drama. The plot begins after Fuchs' arrest (1997), during which he attempted suicide. He survived the explosion of a pipe bomb he detonated, but lost both hands.
The play mainly consists of “conversations” between Fuchs and the examining magistrate Erik Nauta , the interrogators Friedrich Maringer and Robert Sturm and the psychiatric court expert Reinhard Haller . In these, Fuchs tells about his childhood and youth in Styria , his experiences in the professional world and his fear of foreign infiltration into Austria, which has led him to launch a series of attacks on personalities and organizations who have committed themselves to migrants and minorities, to perpetrate. In doing so, Fuchs always insists that he was merely the "mail carrier" of a terrorist network, the so-called Bavarian Liberation Army.
These conversations alternate with monologues that provide an insight into Fuchs' inner life and show his fears and delusions.
When writing his piece, Mitterer said he was based heavily on the interrogation protocols and Haller's psychiatric report.
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The first performance of the play took place on November 13, 2008 in the StadtTheater walfischgasse in Vienna. Directed by Werner Schneyder , Franz Fuchs was played by Thomas Kamper .
Web links
Haymon Verlag : Felix Mitterer: Der Patriot
Erika Wimmer : Review 2009