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U-Boot-Spiel is a radio play by the German writer Dieter Kühn from 1969 . It was produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) and Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR) under the direction of Friedhelm Ortmann . The first broadcast was broadcast by WDR on February 12, 1969, with a length of 49 minutes.

description

The template for this radio play should be familiar to many: Sink ships , a game for two people on squared paper. As a rule, each player distributes 10 ships on his playing field from 10 × 10 calculation boxes: a battleship, two cruisers, three destroyers and four submarines.

In Kühn's radio play, the two older men Walter (voiced by Martin Held ) and Willi (voiced by Günther Lüders ) distribute their 10 ships each on a field of 15 × 15 boxes and the ship designation is given in tons: “A total of 10 ship units in the grid: 4 light units à 3000, 3 medium units à 10,000, 2 heavy units à 15,000 tons, one murderous caliber, 30,000 tons. "

The two opponents begin to talk about the naval war in an anecdotal conversational tone and comment on the opponent's "missed shots" in an amusing manner. “WALTER: Then tell your guard to clean her binoculars: there is nothing and there was nothing. I'll shoot n-4. ”Martin Held dominates this radio play as Walter - also in the length of his text passages - and as the game progresses he builds up in memories of actual acts of war. He obviously knows what he's talking about. The initially teasing dialogues develop into a military exchange of blows and a verbal frenzy. “WALTER: There's nothing there. I am going to attack now, and it will be carried out as it should be, it will be drilled through! Flood, purely with the gun operation, down rudder in front hard down, aft hard up, the boat cuts under, is maneuvered into a favorable forward position, both engines short speed ahead. ”Kühn found such technical details and linguistic formulations in reports from U-Boot- Drivers from the First World War. The radio play ends in a kind of delusional speech by Walter about the sinking of a ship and the floating human bodies on the surface of the sea. Willi calls out several times in between: "Now stop!" (...) "That makes you feel sick, stop!" (...) "Now stop!"

Second production

U-Boot-Spiel was produced again in 1983 by the Swiss radio DRS (SR DRS). Directed by Charles Benoit , the speakers were Hannes Messemer (Walter) and Ruedi Walter (Willi). This time the broadcast length was 58 minutes and made it clear in retrospect the maddening excitement of Martin Held's speech in 1969.

Broadcast dates

On the occasion of Dieter Kühn's 75th birthday, WDR 3 broadcast the radio play on January 30, 2010 at 3:05 p.m.

Publications

  • Wolfgang Schiffer and Michael Serrer (eds.): Balance. Radio play art from the studios of the WDR. Series of publications by the Kulturstiftung NRW, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-940357-58-8 .

literature

  • Dieter Kühn: With wing ears. My radio play book. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-16076-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. Dieter Kühn: With wing ears. My radio play book . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-16076-6 , pp. 70 .
  2. Dieter Kühn: With wing ears. My radio play book . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-16076-6 , pp. 71 .
  3. Dieter Kühn: With wing ears. My radio play book . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-16076-6 , pp. 91 .
  4. Dieter Kühn: With wing ears. My radio play book . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-16076-6 , pp. 69 .
  5. Dieter Kühn: With wing ears. My radio play book . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-16076-6 , pp. 95-96 .