The lucky shoes
Die Glücksschuhe is an allegorical radio play by Günter Eich that was broadcast on March 29, 1948 by Radio Munich under the direction of Wilm ten Haaf and repeated on January 1, 1949.
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Enter two women, happiness and sadness. Happiness gives people a pair of shoes that fit everyone. If the carrier expresses a wish, it will be fulfilled on the spot. However, wishing no longer helps once the shoes are off your feet. The grief doubts that wishes fulfilled will make you happy.
First the archivist Knapp puts on his lucky shoes and is immediately transferred from May 1950 to the time he studied and loved around 1500. Knapp cannot get used to the nightly darkness on the streets of his city as well as the morass and stench when there is no sewer system. The archivist is delighted after successfully wishing himself back in his soft feather bed in May 1950.
This first attempt to make a person happy has therefore failed. Luck doesn't give up and chooses a beggar as the next lucky guy. This organ grinder becomes king as desired. Governing proves to be a balancing act that the new ruler is not up to. After the beggar has wished himself back to his organ grinder, luck realizes his unfortunate choice. Now it chooses the wretched poet Peter Svensson. Unfortunately, this booby catapults himself into the year 2050. Once there, he has to realize that over time his “poetry” has been completely and completely forgotten.
The grief assumes that there is no such thing as happiness. In a final attempt, luck picks a lazy innkeeper. According to the landlord, his wife Kathrin is to blame for the ebb in the cash register. Kathrin is a "pair of pliers". The landlord wishes his wife a new nose in the eternal marital dispute, as well as new hair and new ears. The landlady is now wearing a pepper cucumber in the middle of her face, a hairstyle made from nothing but ribbon noodles and the ears have become two pretzels as desired. Wishing back fails. A dog has never seen the shoes of happiness between its teeth. But luck made the landlord happy. As a showman, he travels with his edible wife from fair to fair through the country. The face of the landlady can be admired by the public for an entrance fee.
New productions for children's radio
- On March 4, 1950, Günter Eich retyped the manuscript; probably for a new production.
- October 13, 1974 in SDR . Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell , music: Werner Haentjes .
- December 6th, 1975 on SDR: “Audio and Magic Play with Singing”. Director: Heinz von Cramer .
- August 12, 1987 in the BR . Director: Werner Simon.
literature
Used edition
- Günter Eich: The lucky shoes. Based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen (1948/1950). P. 231–268 in: Karl Karst (Ed.): Günter Eich. The radio plays I. in: Collected works in four volumes. Revised edition. Volume II . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1991, without ISBN
Secondary literature
- Hans-Ulrich Wagner: Günter Eich and the radio. Essay and documentation. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 1999, ISBN 3-932981-46-4 (publications of the German Broadcasting Archive ; Vol. 27)
annotation
- ↑ Günter Eich means " The galoshes of luck ".