Tracks in the prairie

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Fährten in der Prärie is a radio play by Günter Eich that was broadcast on July 11, 1936 by the Reichsender Berlin under the direction of Harald Braun . On the 25th anniversary of Karl May's death on March 30, 1937, the same institution with the same director brought a new version.

On April 1, 1959, the NDR broadcast Gustav Burmester's version.

content

Mr. Shirwood is building a railway bridge over the Swallow River in Apache Territory. Tschomboq, chief of the Comanches , sells the foreign land for rifles and a few barrels of schnapps to the bridge builder. Shirwood hijacks Barumi - that is the son of the villainous chief - the woman Atoka. Winnetou defends the Apache hunting and grazing grounds, is captured by Tschomboq and freed by Old Shatterhand . Barumi joins the Apache chief. Winnetou dies when the bridge is blown up.

Despite their death-defying armed struggle, the indigenous people are being pushed back by the overpowering white settlers. A few years later, a new bridge spanned the Swallow River - built exactly according to Shirwood's plans for the destroyed debut.

shape

Günter Eich rewrote " Winnetou's death " without further ado. The story is framed with a train ride to Old Shatterhands. After five years, the traveler on the drive to Chicago comes across the place where Winnetou had to die in the fight against the pale faces. In this wistful swan song for the free life of men on the prairie, the old shattered hand in the city on Lake Michigan is forced to take a job as a shooter in a circus.

poetry

Günter Eich sprinkles poems in several places in his radio play. In the very first lines of the radio play, the author identifies himself as the Karl May reader he was once:

Remember sometimes
the boy's fantasy ...

reception

After the original broadcast

  • As Reinhard Döhl wrote, on July 18, 1936, the “ Völkischer Beobachter ” is said to have said: “Günther Eich is a good poet who is also familiar with the requirements of a radio play suitable for radio. His broadcasts are small radio events that stand out from the usual daily program. "

After 1945

  • Wessels sees the audio piece as “a bitter criticism of civilization and progress”. In his subsequent review, he goes into “the affinity for National Socialist ideas” and refers to studies by Würffel and Cuomo in this regard .
  • Wagner briefly addresses controversies among literary scholars regarding the characters Winnetou and Shirwood.

Productions

  • Reichsender Berlin 1936.

Old Shatterhand: Paul Dahlke , Winnetou: Fritz Genschow , Shirwood: Bernhard Minetti , Tschomboq: Carl Heinz Carell , Barimu: Volker von Collande , Atoka: Milena von Eckardt .

  • NDR 1959.

Old Shatterhand: Max Eckard , Winnetou: Will Quadflieg , Shirwood: Richard Münch , Tschomboq: Walter Richter , Barimu: Uwe Friedrichsen , Atoka: Renate Danz .

literature

Used edition

  • Günter Eich: Tracks in the prairie. A game from the falling world of Old Shatterhands and Winnetous. 1936/1959. In: Günter Eich. Collected Works. Volume II: Karl Karst (Ed.): The radio plays 1st revised edition. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-40210-2 , pp. 127-156.

Secondary literature

  • Hartmut Kühne: Günter Eich wrote a Winnetou radio play. In: Communications from the Karl May Society . September 1973, p. 28.
  • Wolfram Wessels: Radio plays in the Third Reich. On the history of institutions, theory and literature. Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-416-01926-1 . (Treatises on art, music and literary studies, Volume 366)
  • Hans-Ulrich Wagner: Günter Eich and the radio. Essay and documentation. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 1999, ISBN 3-932981-46-4 . (Publications of the German Broadcasting Archive , Vol. 27)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edition used, p. 792, 2nd entry vo
  2. ↑ The Swallow River in Pukaskwa National Park
  3. ↑ see also Karl May Wiki
  4. ↑ Edition used, p. 129, 3. Zvo
  5. ↑ Reinhard Döhl wrote
  6. ↑ Wessels, p. 451, 4. Zvo
  7. ↑ Wessels, p. 452, 5. Zvo and p. 453.
  8. ↑ Wessels, p. 452, 12. Zvo
  9. ↑ Wessels, p. 452, 13. Zvo
  10. ^ Wagner, p. 168, right column, 12th Zvu
  11. ^ Wagner, p. 167, right column, 11th Zvu
  12. ↑ hoerdat.in-berlin
  13. ↑ CD of the 1959 production
  14. ↑ 5 min audio sample from the 1959 production  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / drs.srf.ch  
  15. ↑ quoted in Wagner, p. 399, entry Kühne