Edgar Allan Poe (radio play series)
Edgar Allan Poe is a radio play series created by Melchior Hala on behalf of Lübbe Audio . The directors are the successful directors Simon Bertling and Christian Hagitte , who are also responsible for the radio play music for the series. It was published by Lübbe Audio Verlag from November 2003 to August 2009 and is aimed at an adult audience.
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| Radio play from Germany | |
| Year of production | 2003-2009 |
| genre | Crime , horror |
| consequences | 37 |
| Publisher / label | Lübbe Audio |
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| author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Machining | Melchior Hala |
| Director | Christian Hagitte , Simon Bertling |
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as well as guest appearances by Matthias Koeberlin , Anna Thalbach , Rolf Hoppe , Jaecki Schwarz , Peter Schiff , Hans Peter Hallwachs and many others |
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content
The first-person narrator and protagonist of the radio play is a man who seems to have lost his memory . Since he can neither remember his previous life nor his real name, he got the idea to call himself Edgar Allan Poe . At first he was an inmate of an insane asylum , but eventually he went on a search for his true identity.
The radio play not only mixes the contents of Poe's numerous stories and poems very freely, as several characters appearing there receive a more or less detailed role, such as B. Doctor Templeton (from A Tale of the Ragged Mountains ), people or content from works by other well-known authors (partly contemporary Poe) are woven into the story, says Ismael , the narrator from Herman Melville's work Moby -Dick , Israel Hands , the pirate from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island , also Ben Gunn comes from Treasure Island . There is a bartender named "Rick" who could have come from Rick's Café Américan in the film Casablanca . There are u. a. Meat pies made from human flesh, like in Sweeney Todd - The Devilish Barber of Fleet Street .
But there are also real people Poe actually knew personally, according to George Rex Graham , founder and publisher of Graham's Magazine , a literary magazine Poe worked for briefly. Also appear: his adversary Rufus Wilmot Griswold and another adversary, Neilson Poe , Poe's 2nd cousin. But Poe's sister Rosalie also has a role.
Places that were directly or indirectly connected to Poe also become the setting for the plot, such as Poe's birthplace Boston , New York or Baltimore , the city in which he died. But Sleepy Hollow from Washington Irving's work is also the setting where the headless rider appears.
particularities
Compared to other commercial radio play series, the choice of actors is particularly unusual, above all Ulrich Pleitgen in the title role, who puts all his acting skills into the role of desperate poetry, and Iris Berben as Poe's mysterious companion. The multiple award-winning actress has not appeared in any other radio play series to date.
Furthermore, a classic soundtrack was composed especially for the series, which was recorded by a real orchestra. The individual seasons are concluded with a closing song by well-known bands or artists.
The cover motifs for the series come from photographer and Poe connoisseur Simon Marsden .
Awards
In 2004 the series was awarded the German Fantastic Prize in the audio book / radio play category.
In 2006 she was nominated for the German Audiobook Prize in the category The Special Audiobook .
attitude
In March 2010 the series was officially discontinued. The reason given by Lübbe was the low sales figures and the large number of illegal copies in circulation. The author later published a collection of materials on the unpublished end of the radio play series on his homepage.
The episodes published so far are currently only available as a download.
consequences
First season (Release: November 24, 2003)
Theme song by Heinz Rudolf Kunze : The White Raven
- 1 - The pit and the pendulum
- 2 - the black cat
- 3 - The fall of the House of Usher
- 4 - The mask of the red death
Second season (Release December 14, 2004) Orange Blue
theme song : I've Foreseen This Day
- 5 - Fall into the Maelstrom
- 6 - The gold beetle
- 7 - The murders on Rue Morgue
- 8 - Buried alive
Third season (released August 31, 2005) L'Âme Immortelle
theme song : 5 years
- 9 - Hop frog
- 10 - The oval portrait
- 11 - The stolen letter
- 12 - Eleonora
- 13 - silence
Fourth season (released May 8, 2006)
theme song by We (band) : On the verge to go - Edgar Allan Poe Edit
- 14 - The oblong box
- 15 - You did it
- 16 - The barrel of amontillado
- 17 - The treacherous heart
Fifth season (released December 12, 2006)
Theme song by Mara Kim : A dream within a dream
- 18 - Conversation with a mummy
- 19 - The Sphinx
- 20 - The 1002nd story of the Scheherazade
- 21 - shadow
Sixth Season (Released May 15, 2007) Edgar Allan's Project
theme song : I'm Not Insane
- 22 - Berenice
- 23 - King Pest
- 24 - The Valdemar case
- 25 - Metzengerstein
Seventh season (Released March 11, 2008)
Theme song by Christopher Lee : Elenore (EAP Mix)
- 26 - The message in a bottle
- 27 - Landor's country house
- 28 - The man in the crowd
- 29 - The head of the devil
Eighth season (Release: Nov 29, 2008) Elane
theme song : Nen Ar Tasar (You See)
- 30 - Fairy Island
- 31 - tar and feathers
- 32 - William Wilson
- 33 - Morella
Ninth season (Release: August 11, 2009)
Theme song by Katharina Franck : Ligeia
- 34 - Ligeia
- 35 - The secret of Marie Roget
- 36 - The devil in the bell tower
- 37 - The figure of evil
more publishments
- The pit and the pendulum (dts 5.1. Audio on DVD-Video)
- Edgar Allan Poe: Visions (poems and music)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bastei Lübbe AG: Edgar Allan Poe - The radio play series. Press release, December 19, 2003, accessed September 21, 2018 .
- ↑ German Fantastic Prize 2004. Accessed on August 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Nominations DHP 2003 to 2010. Accessed August 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Lübbe Audio is discontinuing radio play series! hoerspiel-freunde.de, March 11, 2010, accessed on September 21, 2018 .
- ^ G. Walt: Official statement from Lübbe-Audio on series settings. (No longer available online.) Zauberspiegel-online.de, March 15, 2010, archived from the original on March 25, 2010 ; accessed on September 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Melchior Hala: POE - The End. http://www.moritz-wulf-lange.de/downloads.htm , 2014, accessed on September 21, 2018 .