Martini summer
Martinisommer is a modern three-person drama by Toni Bernhart , with which he was invited to the 2003 Werkstatttage at the Vienna Burgtheater . Martinisommer was also presented as a live radio play in Vienna's Burgtheater (casino) on February 18, 2006 before the ORF first broadcast. The world premiere as a stage play took place on the occasion of the 3rd Tyrolean Dramatists Festival in the theater in the old town, Meran and in the Westbahntheater, Innsbruck. The play is based on the murder of 16-year-old Marinus Schöberl in Potzlow, Brandenburg in July 2002.
background
On the night of July 12th to 13th, 2002, the brothers Marco and Marcel S. and Sebastian F. met 16-year-old Marinus Schöberl on the street and asked him to drink. Marco S., a neo-Nazi known to the police , is said to have started to abuse Schöberl as a Jew . Marcel S. knew Schöberl from school. He wore hip-hop pants , bleached hair and stuttered. For the perpetrators this was a reason to despise him as "subhuman" and as "not worth living in". After the three Schöberl had been mistreated for several hours, given him schnapps, hit him and urinated on him, they took him to a nearby pigsty. There they pressed Schöberl's head on the edge of a stone pig trough, and Marcel S. jumped - in a reenactment of a " curb kick " from the film American History X - with combat boots on Schöberl's skull, which, according to the perpetrators, "just muddy" has been. Then the S. brothers threw a stone twice at the still breathing boy and sank the later lifeless body in the cesspool of the stable. Although the perpetrators publicly boasted that they had killed an " Assi " and several residents of Potzlow knew of the events, the lead that led to the conviction of the perpetrators could only be taken four months after Marinus Schöberl had disappeared.
implementation
In the play Martinisommer a murdered son, a suspected neighbor and a dead mother tell "their stories".
occupation
Mother (WP: Christina Khuen) Der Junge (WP: Sabine Ladurner) Mann (WP: Paul Demetz)
reception
- 2006 Stage play, world premiere, Tyrolean Dramatists Festival in the Westbahntheater, Innsbruck and Theater der Altstadt Meran , directed by Torsten Schilling, set by Helfried Lauckner
- 2006 ORF radio play, ORF (Ö1)
- 2006 Review by Stephan Sigg in Netzmagazin, No. 139, January 2006
- 2006 Live radio play, Vienna Burgtheater (casino)
- 2006 Review by Claudia Peer , Literaturhaus Wien, February 7, 2006
- 2005 Review, Barbara Hoiß, Research Institute Brenner Archive, University of Innsbruck
- 2003 Invitation to the workshop days, Vienna Burgtheater / German Literature Fund