State funeral (radio play)

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State funeral or four lessons in political community studies is an original audio play by Ludwig Harig from 1969. It was produced by Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) under the direction of Johann M. Kamps . Harig edited this radio play from the original word and audio material of the radio reports on the state funeral of Konrad Adenauer on April 25, 1967, which became a scandal in German radio history.

description

The 64-minute radio play is a collage of original sounds from the funeral ceremonies in honor of Konrad Adenauer. Only the actors of the event themselves have a say: politicians, clergy, keynote speakers and a radio reporter. The soundscape of noises, pieces of music and chants contrasts with the spoken texts. The characters of the play are:

Harig did not add anything to the authentic tape recordings. Merely through rearrangements, enumerations, repetitions and serial arrangements - methods of visual and concrete poetry - Harig exercises language criticism and exposes “Pathos, gay, empty formulas at this first major state funeral of the young republic.” The reporter also provided the prelude and epilogue So utterances that had not been sent. The radio play also begins and ends with the reporter's voice:

“ Organ

REPORTER: Yeah, I'm back. So, let's do the show a little higher. That is the organ sound, here itself, yes, good, good, yes.

Organ "

(...)

"REPORTER: yes, that's the way it is, I mean, do I still have to do something or how does it look? Yes

Bugler. "

Ludwig Harig describes in an unpublished manuscript how this radio play came about: “I heard and read these speeches and addresses and finally analyzed them in a certain way in order to find out what was actually said. My analysis was a linguistic analysis of this authenticity, and as with a scientific analysis, my task was to isolate the elements of a whole in order to test their nature. "

structure

Harig's linguistic analysis of the authentic tape material revealed unanimity and contradictions in the speeches. His assembly technique created "new contexts from conflicting opinions". Four speaking figures emerged, the four lessons of political community studies : The Community of Free Peoples , The Christian Meaning of Political Activity , Freedom and Order, and The Resurrection and Life .

reception

The reactions to the radio play ranged from great enthusiasm among those who saw phrases, pathos and pomposity made recognizable, to anger and anger among those who felt embarrassed by Harig's assembly technique. The outrage went so far with Franz Mai , director of the SR and former personal assistant of Adenauer, that he fought for a ban on the performance of this "cynical parody". He imposed a ban on any distribution of the radio play and prohibited the production of records. In the Saarbrücker Zeitung of February 13, 1973, he wrote: “In my opinion, this radio play is an obvious violation of Section 10 of the Saarland Broadcasting Act, which states that the broadcasts of this company serve the religious, moral and cultural interests of the Saarland population Have to take into account. "

Wolfram Schütte , editor in the features section of the Frankfurter Rundschau from 1967 to 1999 , wrote: “Since Harig's audio collage was a satirical-political piece of enlightenment, as ambiguous as it was ambiguous compared to the original material and clearly with regard to the critical goal, it is highly surprising that the Saarländischer Rundfunk ever produced something like this, but it is understandable that it now wants to hide it in the archive. "

The radio play developed into a literary-political malfunction, about which Jürgen Kolbe wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on June 13, 1972: “... anyone who wants to bury Harig's 'state funeral' in the archives must question not only his understanding of art but also his understanding of democracy have it put. "

The literary scholar and literary critic Jörg Drews wrote about the radio play: “ State funeral , which was written almost simultaneously with the other early, great original audio play, with Paul Wühr's award song , is still an example of laughing, sovereign, completely unrepentant ideological criticism for me State-supporting rhetoric - with Harig the rhetoric of the 'superiors', with Wühr from the rhetoric of those down there - the air is 'let out' and the result is a portrait that is by no means malicious, but rather loving: the Federal Republic of Germany as a collage of language. "

Broadcast dates

  • WDR 3: January 9, 1969, January 24, 1969, February 5, 1970, August 23, 1992, February 27, 2009
  • SR: January 13, 1969
  • SR / SWF / SDR: August 9, 1984
  • BR: September 17, 1990
  • NDR: December 16, 1993
  • Deutschlandradio Kultur: April 1, 2007

Publications

In 1975, the literary scholar and publisher Klaus Ramm released a record with a new production of State Burial 1 and the original production of State Burial 2 , an original audio play after the funeral for Walter Ulbricht , which could be broadcast in the radio play programs. WDR 3 broadcast both state funerals on April 17, 1976, WDR on July 20, 1997 and BR on March 31, 2006.

1988 appeared in the audio book series Cotta's Hörbühne Staatsbestäbnis 1 and 2 on audio cassette.

literature

  • Benno Rech (Ed.): Ludwig Harig. Voices from somewhere. Radio plays (= Werner Jung, Benno Rech, Gerhard Sauder [Hrsg.]: Ludwig Harig Collected Works . Volume 3 ). 1st edition. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23078-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benno Rech (Ed.): Ludwig Harig. Voices from somewhere. Radio plays (= Werner Jung, Benno Rech, Gerhard Sauder [Hrsg.]: Ludwig Harig Collected Works . Volume 3 ). 1st edition. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23078-1 , p. 488 .
  2. ↑ Benno Rech (Ed.): Ludwig Harig. Voices from somewhere. Radio plays. (= Werner Jung, Benno Rech, Gerhard Sauder [Eds.]: Ludwig Harig Collected Works . Volume 3 ). 1st edition. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23078-1 , p. 219 .
  3. ↑ Benno Rech (Ed.): Ludwig Harig. Voices from somewhere. Radio plays. (= Werner Jung, Benno Rech, Gerhard Sauder [Eds.]: Ludwig Harig Collected Works . Volume 3 ). 1st edition. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23078-1 , p. 245 .
  4. ↑ a b c Benno Rech (Ed.): Ludwig Harig. Voices from somewhere. Radio plays (= Werner Jung, Benno Rech, Gerhard Sauder [Hrsg.]: Ludwig Harig Collected Works . Volume 3 ). 1st edition. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23078-1 , p. 487 .
  5. ↑ Benno Rech (Ed.): Ludwig Harig. Voices from somewhere. Radio plays (= Werner Jung, Benno Rech, Gerhard Sauder [Hrsg.]: Ludwig Harig Collected Works . Volume 3 ). 1st edition. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23078-1 , p. 217 .
  6. ↑ Benno Rech (Ed.): Ludwig Harig. Voices from somewhere. Radio plays (= Werner Jung, Benno Rech, Gerhard Sauder [Hrsg.]: Ludwig Harig Collected Works . Volume 3 ). 1st edition. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23078-1 , p. 489 .
  7. ↑ Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Radio Play and Feature: State Burial April 1, 2007, accessed on July 2, 2020 (d).
  8. ↑ Benno Rech (Ed.): Ludwig Harig. Voices from somewhere. Radio plays (= Werner Jung, Benno Rech, Gerhard Sauder [Hrsg.]: Ludwig Harig Collected Works . Volume 3 ). 1st edition. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23078-1 , p. 490 .
  9. ↑ Herbert Piechot: State funeral 1. In: HörDat. The audio play database. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .