Ice city
Thomas Sehl's radio play Eisstadt is a WDR production . Today, Thomas Sehl is better known as Schorsch Cameroon , only his mother and relatives call him by his real name. Cameroon itself is not only the author, but also directed and took on minor roles in his play (e.g. the information clown who leads through the evening). "Eisstadt" was broadcast for the first time on January 31, 2005 on WDR and has a playing time of 52 minutes and 43 seconds.
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The "City of Ice" is the hopeful place for refugees as Nevin ( Laura Tonke ) who want to escape the misery of their slums Katutura ( "the place where you do not want to be") and a better life in and her family, "ice city" lead would like. There, however, the dictator Marshal Schaill (Jens Rachut) rules, who with his assistants Karl ( Fabian Hinrichs ) and Neumann ( Jacques Palminger ), who are regime soldiers and chief demagogues, divides the city population into worth and unworthy.
Nevin quickly realizes that the refugees in the city, in which Marshal Schaill organized away opinion and dignity, experience only humiliation and terror. The eye fluid is pumped out of the refugees and given to the locals. Thus Nevin and the other refugees are degraded to suppliers of raw materials, because the liquid is an eye-preserving antidote to those bacilli that were thrown over the world as a measure to calm humanity. Those who do not have this liquid go blind. The liquid is very expensive, however, as it is made by squeezing the refugees, and only the ancestral residents of the “Ice City” can afford it. Nevin plucks up the courage to rebel when she realizes that her eye fluid is the guarantee of survival for the city's population.
Interpretative approach
ARD and Deutschlandradio Kultur Schorsch introduce Cameroon's radio play with the appropriate words “A fairy tale from the middle of life” . Aptly, because Cameroon designed a negative utopia with “Ice City” and mixed it with the present. He combined the utopian element of dazzling humanity, which was intended as a measure to calm humanity, with the exploitation of refugees, which can be seen as a real element of the radio play. This represents one aspect of globalization. Today workers are being exploited in developing countries. They have to do their work under poor conditions and receive little salary so that the products they produce give people in industrialized countries a better attitude towards life. This is exactly what happened to the refugees in the ice city. For a better attitude towards life for the urban population, they were reduced to the raw material suppliers of their eye fluid.
Web links
- ARD radio play archive , accessed on August 9, 2010
- Deutschlandradio , accessed on August 9, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article423393/Man-hasst-uns-von-Herzen.html
- ↑ http://www.ard.de/radio/hoerspielarchiv/-/id=570460/nid=570460/cf=42/wrzwf3/index.html?page_570502=aHR0cDovL3dlYi5hcmQuZGUvcmFkaW8vaG9lcnNwaWVsX2RyYS9kaXNwbGF5LnBocD9pZD0xMTg0MDYxNyZzaWQ9bGlyYTNwc2lvcDBpaTZkZDVyMzRkNnVtNzY%3D ( page no longer available , searching web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ A fairy tale from the middle of life
- ↑ A fairy tale from the heart of today's life
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2005 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.
