Maigret and the Yellow Dog (radio play, 1961)
 (orig. Le chien jaune ) |
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| Radio play from Germany | |
| original language | French |
| Year of production | 1961 |
| publication | 2005 |
| genre | Thriller |
| Duration | 58 min |
| production | BR |
| Publisher / label | The audio publishing house |
| Contributors | |
| author | Georges Simenon |
| Machining | Gert Westphal |
| Director | Heinz-Günter Stamm |
| music | Herbert Jarczyk |
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Maigret and the Yellow Dog (in the original: Le chien jaune ) is a radio play by Bayerischer Rundfunk from 1961 based on the translation by Harold Effberg, adapted by Gert Westphal and directed by Heinz-Günter Stamm based on the novel of the same name by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon . In 1959, the Südwestfunk had already completed a radio play , in which Westphal had also taken over the processing and even the direction.
action
In the small town of Concarneau in Brittany, a series of violent crimes and attempts at intimidation shock the population. When the wine merchant Mostaguen went home late at night from the round table of dignitaries in Café l'Amiral , he was shot. Shortly after the arrival of Commissioner Maigret , who had previously been transferred to the mobile brigade of the National Gendarmerie in Rennes to reorganize it, someone tried to poison the rest of the regulars with strychnine dissolved in Pernod . This discovery was made by Dr. Thanks to Michoux, a non-practicing doctor and real estate dealer. The public is alarmed by the disappearance of the journalist Servieres, his blood-stained car that was left behind and the poisoning of another member of the card group, Yves Le Pommeret, and journalists from the surrounding area are made aware of the case.
Maigret comes across an accumulation of conspicuous traces: In Dr. Michoux, a member of the dignitaries, found a large number of empty cans and champagne bottles , but above all, traces of size 46 boots always appeared in the vicinity of the crime scenes. Various eyewitnesses claim to have seen a yellow dog that nobody knows anywhere in the vicinity of the crime. Surprisingly, Maigret gives in to the mayor's pressure and has Michoux arrested, but more so to better protect him from further attacks.
An actress' divination to Dr. Michoux five years earlier that he should watch out for the "yellow dog" has been given new weight. Now he finally decides to make a statement that suddenly lets the dignitaries appear in a new light. But Maigret can only catch the "giant" with his yellow dog when he reconsiders the insignificant statement made by a domestic worker and realizes that the first poison attack was just a diversionary maneuver.
Another shot is fired and a waiter is slightly wounded in the leg. Servières is picked up in Paris , whereupon he is brought back to Concarneau, where the commissioner arranges a confrontational meeting with all the main characters: Dr. Michoux, Servières, Michoux's mother, who had returned to Concarneau, the gigantic man, Léon Le Glérec and Emma who were arrested at the railway station, and the mayor who had constantly urged Maigret to resolve the case.
The origins of the story were five or six years ago when Le Glérec paid his first installments on his boat and planned to marry Emma. Michoux, Servières and Le Pommeret persuaded the boat owner to smuggle cocaine into the United States instead of vegetables to England. When his boat arrived in America, he was instantly arrested. In prison, Léon Le Glérec found out that he had apparently been sent as a scapegoat to do a favor to other smugglers. When he was released, the giant set out to take the perpetrators of his detention to prison himself, even if they killed him.
The first thing he wanted to do was to see the doctor, who in turn tricked Emma into writing a message to Le Glérec by asking him to meet at the city gate. Due to a mistake, however, Mostaguen stayed there, who was then mistakenly shot. Michoux poisoned Le Pommeret when he suddenly changed his mind and wanted to let the story explode. However, his mother had fired the last shot in turn to divert suspicion from her son who was in prison.
Léon Le Glérec and the housemaid Emma can now start a new life, while the criminal doctor has the prospect of 20 years of hard imprisonment in the penal colony on Devil's Island off the coast of French Guiana in South America .
output
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Maigret and the yellow dog. BR, director: Heinz-Günter Stamm , arranged by: Gert Westphal , translation: Harold Effberg; with Paul Dahlke in the title role. Der Audio Verlag , edition: special edition 2005, ISBN 978-3898133906 .
- The other radio plays in the special edition were: Maigret and the Beanstalk , Maigret and his scruples .
templates
- Georges Simenon: Le chien jaune. Fayard, Paris 1931
- Georges Simenon: The yellow dog. Translation: Harold Effberg, Schlesische Verlagsanstalt 1934.
- Georges Simenon: Maigret and the yellow dog . Translation: Isolde Kolbenhoff, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne / Berlin 1958
- Georges Simenon: Maigret and the yellow dog . Translation: Raymond Regh, Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 1979, ISBN 978-3257206913
Further adaptations
Two years earlier, Südwestfunk had already completed a radio play, for which Westphal had also taken over the editing and even the direction. Here Leonhard Steckel spoke the title role and Hans-Helmut Dickow the Dr. Michoux. Other speakers included Wolfgang Forester , Kurt Ebbinghaus , Kurt Lieck , Andreas Dahlmeyer and Ursula Langrock . This version is available from the SWF, but not commercially available on a phonogram.
In 2006, Diogenes Verlag also published an audio book version with Friedhelm Ptok as the narrator ( ISBN 978-3257800401 ).
review
In connection with the radio play adaptations, the underlying calm of the cases described was praised: “The delightful thing about Simenon's works is the calm they radiate. Simenon has never written action crime novels. The narrative style resembles a slowly flowing river. Here the people involved have enough time to develop clearly before the eyes of the reader. "
“Maigret doesn't seem happy when he comes to the port city, and not unhappy when he leaves again: We learn that whoever has rank and name there is defeated with an extremely lax morality. It goes without saying that we are lagging behind the inspector's weather for a long time, and also that the dog turns out to be a furious distraction maneuver, for which he almost has to believe, because the population is only too happy to be scared of the big yellow animal. Maigret's eternal sentimentality, however, his empathy with the real victims and his will to bring them justice to the point of bending the law, is also evident here: In the end the real heroine is pregnant, the real hero sails away with her ”.
Web links
- Review of the radio play. On: www.der-hoerwurm.de. August 8, 2005 ( memento from December 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Retrieved July 3, 2012.
- Tilman Spreckelsen: : Maigret Marathon 6. The yellow dog . October 16, 2008, in: faz.net . Retrieved July 3, 2012.
- Action on www.trussel.com . Retrieved July 2, 2012.
- Maigret and the yellow dog. On: www.maigret.de. Retrieved July 3, 2012.