Steps to Andreas
Steps to Andreas is a radio play by Günter Eich that was broadcast on February 5, 1935 by Reichssender Berlin under the direction of Harald Braun . The music was written by Rudolf Wagner-Régeny . It was repeated on the basis of a record on April 20th of the same year.
content
A tree smashed Andrea's knees and thighs. In the woodworker's hut in the forest on the mountain he lies dying at night. He calls Kathrin. The beloved hears him and sets off from the valley on the long way. As she walks, Kathrin doubts that she was called by Andreas, because that's how the dying called, she says. Because Kathrin believes that Andreas will not die and gets lost in the mountainous forest eclipse.
Andreas, dying, lying in the forest under tall trees, remarks with a smile that nothing is over yet. Now, as spring begins, the roots are reaching for him. He drives into the treetop and turns green. A bird perches on its branch.
poetry
Not only does the whole fable have unmistakable poetic traits. When Kathrin went astray on the way to her dying lover in the forest, Günter Eich had her say:
- The great forests are silent
- as if stopping the time ...
shape
In the audio piece, imagination overcomes impossibilities. Kathrin would have to climb uphill through the nocturnal forest for two hours to get to Andreas' dwelling. But when the lover calls for her from her deathbed, she answers immediately. That is not enough. The reincarnation of the dying as a living tree is comforting.
literature
Used edition
- Günter Eich: Steps to Andreas. A funky attempt (1935). Pp. 103-113 in: Karl Karst (Ed.): Günter Eich. The radio plays I. in: Collected works in four volumes. Revised edition. Volume II . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1991, without ISBN
Secondary literature
- 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)
annotation
- ↑ Wagner mentions the “radiophonic dream game poetics” in this “artistically remarkable radio work”. (Wagner, p. 56, 6. Zvo)