The last detective
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| Radio play from Germany | |
| original language | German |
| Year of production | 1984-2001, 2008 |
| genre | Science fiction / crime |
| consequences | 42 |
| production | Bayerischer Rundfunk (episodes 1–40), Dr. Bahr (episodes 41-42) |
| Contributors | |
| author | Michael Koser |
| Machining | Michael Koser |
| Director | Heiner Schmidt † (episodes 1–4), Alexander Malachovsky † (episodes 5–16), Werner Klein (episodes 17–42) |
| music | Frank Duval |
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The Last Detective (also known as: Jonas. Nur Jonas. And Sam. ) Is a science fiction crime radio play series by Michael Koser , which comprises a total of 42 episodes and was produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk as a radio play. In 2008 the series was commissioned by the law firm Dr. Bahr finished with episodes 41 and 42.
Emergence
After the author Michael Koser had written the radio drama series Professor van Dusen for the radio station RIAS since 1978 , he wanted to establish a second crime series on the market in the spring of 1982. This should clearly stand out from his first crime series and not take place in the first years of the 20th century, but in the early years of the 21st century. The idea came from the last detective, Jonas, who lives in the metropolis of Babylon with his loyal companion Sam, a talking computer, and solves cases (Sam only took shape later). He preferred to sketch a gloomy vision of the future of the 21st century, which "[...] would not be light and utopian, but rather dark and threatening, chaotic, absurd." Koser's first exposé was written by Ulrich Gerhardt, head of radio plays at the SFB rejected, whereupon Koser turned to Bayerischer Rundfunk . The editors Dieter Hasselblatt and Erwin Weigel were convinced and commissioned the first radio play scripts of the series. In the summer of 1983 Koser wrote the first episode Testmarkt (first broadcast in October 1984) and within a year another three sequels.
The basic idea of a detective in the 21st century who likes whiskey, has a talking computer, lives in a darkly threatening future and solves cases there, corresponds to the stories published in the GDR in 1977 who steals lower legs? by Gert Prokop . It is not known how Michael Koser came up with the same idea five years later.
action
The action takes place in a future-oriented, fictional world from 2009 to 2017. Jonas (salutation "Jonas, only Jonas", born on May 1, 1967, 183 cm) lives in the corruption and crime-riddled metropolis of Babylon in the middle of the United States Europe as the last detective and incorrigible nostalgic . Together with his helpful, annoying and extremely linguistically gifted computer Sam, he solves cases in the areas of white-collar crime and corruption, environmental pollution and the unscrupulous exploitation of the lower class (e.g. through organ trafficking and snuff films ).
Even back in the 1980s, the early years of the series, the author Michael Koser introduced the euro as a currency unit (then still known as the ECU ). In episode 2 Safari , the cent is also mentioned as a sub-unit.
production
The Last Detective is the most successful radio drama series by Bavarian Radio since Dickie Dick Dickens in the 1950s.
Two new episodes came out in October and November 2008. In contrast to earlier public service productions by Bayerischer Rundfunk, these were privately financed and made available as a free download on the Internet.
Literary classification and filmic notes
The crime series is characterized by its black humor . The listener is shown what is meant by the term end-time mood . Motifs from films with Humphrey Bogart such as Casablanca and from film noir titles such as The Trail of the Falcon are taken up.
- Parallels can be drawn to Isaac Asimov's book series about Elijah Baley, a future detective or police officer. Even Arthur C. Clarke's single band The seven suns illuminating a superficially similar insulated future society.
- Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer, is set in a similar dystopian future. The film is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
- There are various cyberpunk and cyberspace novels which, based on the upheavals in business and computer technology, describe a world that is not entirely dissimilar to that of Jonas.
- Classics of the dystopian vision of the future are 1984 by George Orwell , Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley .
- The series sees itself as a humorous continuation of the black series, especially with Dashiell Hammett , Mickey Spillane and Raymond Chandler . Here it is somewhat similar to Dickie Dick Dickens or Blacksad .
Sequence index
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Web links
- The Jonas page on www.profvandusen.com
- Interview with Michael Koser in the Donaukurier
- Episodes 41 and 42 as a free download
- Jonas Fansite - Comprehensive information about the world of Jonas, recommended by the BR-Jonas-Seite
Individual evidence
- ^ Project Jonas. Just Jonas. And Sam. of the law firm Dr. Bahr (privately financed episodes 41 and 42 from 2008)
- ↑ Michael Koser: Jonas - The last detective . In: www.profvandusen.com , May 2006. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
- ↑ Download from the website of the law firm Dr. Bahr