Exit (radio play)
Exit (own spelling: EXIT ) is a radio play by Michael Lentz from 2005. The original radio play was produced by the radio play and media art department of Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) with the help of the author and former private secretary Thomas Mann Konrad Kellen (actually Konrad Katzenellenbogen) . The original broadcast took place on May 23, 2005.
concept
The idea of the piece is “the radio play as a memory and visualization machine, as an osmosis between 'exile' and 'exit'” (BR). A speaker is stimulated by a listener to expand his world of memory almost to the last. Parts of the radio play were used by Jochen Meißner in the radio features "Maybe it is so ..." (SWR 2006) and " In the beginning there was the sound - Michael Lentz 'work on the word between music and narration " ( DLF 2006) . In it Lentz says about Konrad Kellen:
“When I was on the phone, I noticed that the voice is its own medium. Konrad Kellen's voice is already a narration [...] He speaks English, Katzenellenbogen, but he has a forced German, which confused me completely at first. I actually thought you had to speak English with him, he no longer speaks German. But somehow he speaks German as if he were hanging on - with one hand still on the rock, just before the fall. "
content
The subject of the experiment is the memories of Konrad Kellen, who lived in exile in America from 1935 until his death in 2007. Thanks to the author's assembly technique, Kellen's descriptions of different focal points are condensed into one:
“And then of course in America and in the world in general people believed that it was all the Storm Troopers, the SA and the SS. / If we are so worked into a language / that these citizens, the petty bourgeoisie and the Upper citizens, that they supported it so much and really enjoyed it when a language overran us to such an extent / and thus made this idea of the millennium. Somehow all of this has never been described. / When this one language envelops us, freezes us, makes us recognizable / Of course that also has to do with the sanctity of war. If you were at war and not for your country, then you were a bad person. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on the pages ( memento of January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) of Bayerischer Rundfunk , no longer available