A man is at the door
A man stands at the door is a radio play by Brigitte Reimann and Siegfried Pitschmann from 1960. When they wrote the back cover for the book edition, the authors had already lived at the scene for almost a year .
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In the fall of 1958, the compressor driver Lutz Steiger stood in front of the door of the manager Jakubartel in the combine Schwarze Pumpe . Lutz wants to get back to work. But actually he longs for Sonja Liebwein, the young secretary of the manager.
Background: The individualist Lutz had already traveled a lot through his professional activity, had worked in Stalinstadt , Trattendorf and on the Rapp-Bode before he fell in love with the then 19-year-old Sonja in the above-mentioned VEB near Spremberg . When the work colleagues no longer wanted to tolerate his extra tours and had set a date for discussion, Lutz had suddenly disappeared. Sonja had received letters from a refugee camp in the Lüneburg Heath and later from Oldenburg , Hanover and Hameln . Lutz had n't been able to gain a foothold in Germany , had returned and wanted to knock on Sonja's.
The young woman now has a child from Lutz. The father doesn't know anything about it because when he was still with Sonja he rarely really listened. During Lutzen's absence, Sonja's boss took care of the lonely woman a little. Jakubartel is 28 years older than Sonja, but wanted to be Sonja's husband after the child was born. Unfortunately Jakubartel wears a prosthetic leg. During the war he had to clear minefields in a suicide mission.
It looks as if Sonja is giving the refugee Lutz who has returned to the east a second chance. After all, she really loved Lutz before he left, when she said in a sensible way: "If you're around, I don't mind anything else ..."
shape
The temporal structure of the radio play - dramaturgy: Gerhard Rentzsch - is not trivial. By means of flashbacks, the authors gradually introduce the listener to Sonja's relationship with Lutz. Outside of the game scenes, Sonja's thoughts are also communicated in the flashbacks.
interpretation
The superficial listener could say: “Ridiculous, the GDR citizen is warned about fleeing the republic in the radio play .” That is certainly true, but it also reflects a piece of history from the 1950s. In addition, the generation conflict is discussed. After Sonja became pregnant, she courageously managed the painful detachment from stepfather and mother.
There is an apparently propaganda-tinged passage where the listener could mistake the authors for two class warriors in the middle of the Cold War . What is meant is Lutz's disgust at moving with SS flags in the FRG.
Original broadcast
The production by Theodor Popp from 1960 with Waltraud Kramm as Sonja Liebwein, Günter Haack as Lutz Steiger and Erich Franz as Jakubartel, Walter Richter-Reinick (Erich, Sonja's father) and Ruth Kommerell (Gertrud, Sonja's mother) was released on April 3. Originally broadcast on Radio DDR I in August 1960. Length 64'25. The piece was 2nd prize winner in the "National Round" of the international radio play competition of the broadcasters in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and the GDR.
In her diary entry of July 14, 1960, Brigitte Reimann reports on a pre-performance event of the radio play the day before in Schwarze Pump: "Yesterday was the premiere of our radio play A man is standing at the door , in the radio studio of the combine. [...] Mine No one could come to the brigade: work in the press cellar. 12 hours of work.
On June 16, 1961 Brigitte Reimann and Siegfried Pitschmann received the FDGB literary prize for their two radio plays, written together, A man is at the door and Sieben Scheffel Salz .
literature
Text output
- First edition and used edition
- Brigitte Reimann. Siegfried Pitschmann: A man is at the door. Radio play . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1960 (the series, vol. 50). 58 pages, paperback
annotation
- ↑ Lutz about his work: "We pressed concrete for four hours ..." (Edition used, p. 23, 3rd Zvo)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edition used, pp. 27, 10. Zvu and p. 28, 13. Zvu
- ↑ Edition used, p. 19, 2nd Zvu
- ↑ Edition used, pp. 32–37
- ↑ Edition used, p. 47, 16. Zvo
- ^ Gerhard Rentzsch: Hörspieljahrbuch 1 , Henschelverlag Berlin 1961, p. 173.
- ↑ Brigitte Reimann: I regret nothing - diaries 1955-1963 , Aufbau-Verlag Berlin, 1997, p. 147
- ^ Brigitte Reimann: I regret nothing - diaries 1955-1963 , Aufbau-Verlag Berlin, 1997, p. 195