A business with dreams (radio play)

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A business with dreams is a radio play by Ingeborg Bachmann that was broadcast on February 28, 1952 under the direction of Walter Davy from Rot-Weiß-Rot Wien . The text from the estate was printed in 1976 by Piper in Munich.

The Germany radio Cologne brought on 20 December 1975 Heinz von Cramer's version. Ernst Jacobi spoke for Laurenz, Gertrud Kückelmann for Anna and Wolfgang Kieling for General Manager.

Before the radio play, the author wrote a story of the same name - similar in content .

content

action

Anna and Laurenz, two ordinary employees, are bullied in the office every day by the general manager. The two intimidated subordinates always want to please the superior.

After work, Laurenz strolls through the city and happens to walk into a shop where dreams are sold. The seller shows Laurenz three dreams.

In the first dream the general manager instigates an air war against Laurenz and Anna in the deepest peace. Anna thinks she's bleeding to death. Laurenz wants to get Anna and himself out of the line of fire and save them underground.

Laurenz doesn't like the dream at all. He can be shown a second. It's better. The roles are reversed. Laurenz is at war. The general manager stands rifle at his feet and speaks to Laurenz with “Dear General Manager”. Laurenz hesitates. Then he doesn't want to buy. A third dream is needed.

In it Anna goes down in a large white ship. Undaunted, Laurenz follows her beloved down to the fish, starfish, shells and garlands of algae. In the dark depths, Anna and Laurenz confess their love. Laurenz wants the dream. But since he does not want to pay with time instead of money, as requested by the seller, he returns to everyday life without a dream. The general manager is already waiting in the office for his docile employee Laurenz.

reception

Günter Eich's radio play " Dreams " was the godfather. Höller goes into the dream language.

Bartsch characterizes the little office worker Laurenz with a quote from “ The thirtieth year ”: Laurenz experiences a “tremendous offense” in life and seeks compensation in a dream. In the three dreams Laurenz received "too much knowledge". In the first two dreams, Anna is portrayed as the victim of a predominantly male world. In the third dream, Laurenz then succeeds in the “mystical union” with the beloved Anna. Bartsch emphasizes the lyrical tone in the third dream, to which the lovers find their way in the dream underwater world, and contrasts it with the relapse into silent obedience of the petty bourgeois Laurenz on the next working day.

Laurenz meets the impossible in the dream shop. Laurenz imagines the love affair with the secretary Anna, who in the third dream figures as an “ Undine- like mermaid”.

For Golisch, Ingeborg Bachmann's early radio play is, despite the clichés and lack of surprises, a document of the post-war period and early rebellion.

Bareiss and Ohloff name one further work and 15 meetings.

narrative

The text of the story of the same name mentioned above is considerably shorter than that of the radio play. The office and dream world that can be experienced in the radio play is not worked out at all in the story. While the dreamer in the story falls ill for weeks after dreaming and then loses his job, the next day the Laurenz of the radio play plunges back into the colorless everyday office life without a sound. Steinhoff compares the radio play with the story.

literature

Text output

Used edition
  • Christine Koschel (Ed.), Inge von Weidenbaum (Ed.), Clemens Münster (Ed.): Ingeborg Bachmann. Works. First volume: poems. Radio plays. Libretti. Translations . 683 pages. Piper, Munich 1978 (5th edition 1993), volume 1701 of the Piper series, ISBN 3-492-11701-5 , pp. 177-216

Secondary literature

  • Otto Bareiss, Frauke Ohloff: Ingeborg Bachmann. A bibliography. With a foreword by Heinrich Böll. Piper, Munich 1978. ISBN 3-492-02366-5
  • Christine Koschel (Ed.), Inge von Weidenbaum (Ed.), Clemens Münster (Ed.): Ingeborg Bachmann. Works. Volume two: Stories. Piper, Munich 1978 (5th edition 1993), volume 1702 of the Piper series, ISBN 3-492-11702-3
  • Hans Höller : Ingeborg Bachmann. The work. From the earliest poems to the “types of death” cycle . Hain (Athenäums Programm), Frankfurt am Main 1993. ISBN 3-445-08578-1 , pp. 75-94
  • Kurt Bartsch: Ingeborg Bachmann. Metzler, Stuttgart 1997 (2nd edition, Metzler Collection. Volume 242). ISBN 3-476-12242-5
  • Stefanie Golisch : Ingeborg Bachmann for an introduction . Junius, Hamburg 1997. ISBN 3-88506-941-5
  • Hans Höller: Ingeborg Bachmann . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999 (2002 edition), ISBN 3-499-50545-2
  • Monika Albrecht (Hrsg.), Dirk Göttsche (Hrsg.): Bachmann-Handbuch. Life - work - effect . Metzler, Stuttgart 2002. ISBN 3-476-01810-5
  • Sigrid Weigel : Ingeborg Bachmann. Legacies in compliance with the confidentiality of letters . dtv , Munich 2003 (Zsolnay, Vienna 1999). ISBN 3-423-34035-5 , pp. 260-264
  • Christine Steinhoff: Ingeborg Bachmann's Poetology of Dreams. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-8260-3862-4

Web links

annotation

  1. ↑ Weigel (Weigel, p. 263, footnote 31) casts doubt on the order.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bareiss, Ohloff, p. 15, entry 29
  2. ↑ Edition used, p. 661, first entry
  3. ↑ December 20, 1975 Deutschlandfunk ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ard.de
  4. ^ Sara Lennox in: Albrecht / Göttsche, p. 85 right column, 18. Zvu
  5. ↑ Bartsch, p. 49, 16. Zvu
  6. ↑ Höller 2002, p. 47, 1. Zvu
  7. ↑ Höller 1993
  8. ↑ Bartsch, p. 76 center - p. 81 center
  9. ↑ Koschel / von Weidenbaum / Münster, second volume, p. 101, 10. Zvo
  10. ↑ Bartsch, p. 77, 1. Zvo
  11. ↑ Bartsch, p. 79, middle
  12. ↑ Bartsch, p. 79, 9th Zvu
  13. ↑ Sara Lennox in: Albrecht / Göttsche, pp. 85–89
  14. ^ Sara Lennox in: Albrecht / Göttsche, p. 86 left column, 9th Zvu
  15. ^ Sara Lennox in: Albrecht / Göttsche, p. 87 right column, 14th and 19th Zvo
  16. ↑ Golisch, pp. 69-76
  17. ↑ Golisch, p. 76 middle
  18. ↑ Bareiss, Ohloff, p. 115, entry 527 and pp. 192–193, entries 1197–1211
  19. ↑ Steinhoff, pp. 54-89