Festianus, martyr

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Festianus, Märtyrer is a radio play by Günter Eich , which was broadcast on October 16, 1958 by NDR and BR under the direction of Gustav Burmester .

title

In Paradise arrived to Festianus legitimized at Lawrence as housemate of Aristobulus . The newcomer also claims that he was mentioned by Paul in the letter to the Romans .

content

The hell in the middle of the 20th century, The martyr Festianus in the Circus Maximus was in those days mauled by lions, missing in paradise parents and also a crony, the Roman innkeeper Salpicius. He's looking for the three in the neighboring hell. The way there leads through a thorn thicket to a wide road and then downhill. At the gates of Hell, Festianus is recognized by the devil Belial by his halo as not being damned . During a tour, the devil acquaints the visitor from paradise with the innovations since Dante . There is now a scientific department in Hell that is “ organized through punch cards”. The head of the "personnel and reporting department", a college friend of the "commandant" of hell, studied theology . The prince of Hell Belial instructs Festianus that the innovations were based, among other things, on documents "from concentration and labor camps". On the tour, Festianus meets his friend Salpicius in a workshop. The martyr is disappointed. In conversation it turns out that Salpicius went to hell as a fence, matchmaker and wine admirer. Festianus has now found his parents in hell.

In the meantime, gatekeeper Peter worries about Festianus in heaven and sends Laurentius “out of the light of happiness” down “into the darkness”. The emissary is supposed to pick up the relegated person. Festianus sends Laurentius back to Peter and sends a message that he will stay down with Salpicius, his parents and the other poor and sick people.

Belial, shouting over the din of hell, picks up the martyr: “ Let go of all hope! “Festianus, who experiences the compulsion to hell from the devil , is - with difficulty - still capable of one optimistic statement: You [hope] is driving; be "a boat that takes us all"; everyone, even the devil.

Quote

Laurentius to Peter: "Our sins are moles."

Productions

reception

  • Wagner names a number of reviews from the daily press, including "Gentle revolt against complacency" (" Düsseldorfer Nachrichten " of October 20, 1958), "A theological Günter Eich" (Paul Hubrich in the " Ruhr Nachrichten " of October 22, 1958), "One must ask" ( Vilma Sturm in the FAZ of October 23, 1958), "A saint in hell" (" Die Zeit " of October 24, 1958), "The good person who only dealt with the bad" (" Christ and World "of December 18, 1958)," Günter Eich and James Joyce "(" Stuttgarter Zeitung "of March 6, 1959) and" Ancient and modern Odyssey "(Hans Georg Bonte in" Christ and World "of April 9 1959).
  • Schwitzke returns the contents and sweep out a Günter Eich who wants to rock the theological foundation: "... the ancient healing shierarchie must be destroyed" and elect had robbed her collection from the amount the poor.

Recent comments

  • Oppermann points to an irony; What is meant is the biblical word about the two ways, which is slightly twisted by the author. At Günter Eich, a wide road connects heaven and hell.
  • The newcomer Festianus found “self-satisfied redeemed” in paradise. In this “criticism of creation” Günter Eich presented God's justice as arbitrary.
  • In Barner's literary history, the Festianus' final hope in hell is discussed. Even after his death the martyr seeks the closeness of the burdened and tortured.
  • Norbert Wiener's book “Mensch und Menschmaschine” is criticized in the play. Martin gives both an optimistic and a pessimistic interpretation of the hope expressed at the end of the text.

literature

expenditure

Günter Eich: Fifteen radio plays . ( Don't go to El Kuwehd ! Dreams . Sabeth . The other one and me . View of Venice . The tiger Yusuf . My seven young friends . The girls from Viterbo . The year Lazertis . Pewter screams . The hour of the coltsfoot . The surf off Setúbal . Allah has a hundred names : Festianus, martyr. One asks to ring the bell ) Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1966 (series: The books of the nineteen, vol. 136), 598 pages

Used edition

  • Günter Eich: Festianus, Märtyrer (1958) . P. 451–491 in: Karl Karst (Ed.): Günter Eich. The radio plays 2. in: Collected works in four volumes. Revised edition. Volume III . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1991, without ISBN

Secondary literature

  • Norbert Wiener : Man and man machine. Cybernetics and Society . 212 pages. Translator: Gertrud Walther. Alfred Metzner Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1952
  • Heinz Schwitzke (Ed.): Reclam's radio play guide. With the collaboration of Franz Hiesel , Werner Klippert , Jürgen Tomm. Reclam, Stuttgart 1969, without ISBN, 671 pages
  • Michael Oppermann: Inner and outer reality in Günter Eich's radio play. Diss. University of Hamburg 1989, Reinhard Fischer publishing house, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-88927-070-0
  • Sabine Alber: The place in free fall. Günter Eich's moles in the context of the entire work. Dissertation. Technische Universität Berlin 1992. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1992 (European university publications. Series I, German language and literature, vol. 1329), ISBN 3-631-45070-2
  • Wilfried Barner (ed.): History of German literature. Volume 12: History of German Literature from 1945 to the Present . CH Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-38660-1
  • Sigurd Martin: The auras of the word-image. Günter Eich's mole poetics and the theory of inadvertent reading. Dissertation University of Frankfurt am Main 1994. Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 1995 (Mannheimer Studien zur Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Vol. 3), ISBN 3-86110-057-6
  • 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. ↑ Karst, p. 765, below
  2. ↑ Aristobulus: Rom 16.10  EU
  3. ↑ Edition used, p. 467, 13. Zvu
  4. ↑ Edition used, p. 491, 4th Zvu
  5. ↑ Edition used, p. 460, 2nd Zvu
  6. ↑ Edition used, p. 491, 16. Zvu
  7. ^ Wagner, p. 308, right column, center
  8. ^ Wagner, p. 310, right column above
  9. ↑ Schwitzke, p. 192, 16. Zvo
  10. ↑ Schwitzke, p. 192, 15. Zvo
  11. ↑ Oppermann, pp. 128-133
  12. ↑ Sermon on the Mount : ( Mt 7 : 13-14  EU )
  13. ↑ Oppermann, p. 130, 7th Zvu
  14. ↑ Alber, p. 124, 6. Zvo
  15. ↑ Alber p. 124, 10. Zvo
  16. ↑ Barner, p. 250, 18. Zvu
  17. ↑ Martin, p. 264, 1. Zvo and p. 269, 20. Zvo
  18. ↑ Martin, p. 343, 14. Zvo