Pewter shouting (Günter Eich)
Zinngeschrei is a radio play by Günter Eich , which was broadcast on December 25, 1955 by the NWDR Hamburg under the direction of Gustav Burmester .
title
At the beginning of the radio play, the corresponding passage from Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon is quoted to explain the words of Zinngeschrei .
content
The action takes place in Paris. The 26-year-old Bolivian journalist Nicolas Valera, spokesman for a revolutionary group, worked for Humanité after completing his studies , lost his job and survived as a night waiter in a bar. When he was unexpectedly invited to a garden party at the Bolivian consulate, he gave the young Manuel Rubio his opinion at this party: Manuel's father, the owner of seventeen copper , tin and bismuth mines, was an exploiter who killed several thousand Indios on the conscience. Manuel, who wants to defend the family's honor, wants to duel. Valera agrees to the armed conflict.
Mr. Rubio senior, who directs his tin empire from London, has his scouts everywhere; also in Paris. The old man sends his secretary Calvo to the metropolis on the Seine . Calvo thwarts and prevents the duel. Valera withdraws his commitment in writing. Manuel's mother travels to Paris from London - as a tourist, so to speak. Manuel asks the mother about the father's machinations. The father - according to Mrs. Rubio - was not to blame for the death of the Indians. The mother knows a lot about the common homeland Bolivia and the family property there, but her answers give the questioner nothing new. Manuel realizes that the father rules alone. He and the mother are the ruler's puppets.
Manuel thinks. It was his grandfather who bequeathed the mines to his father. Manuel as the only son will inherit in turn.
The young Rubio renounces the family, renounces the inheritance and gives up his name. The former millionaire is destitute as Camille Dubois and is considering a job in the Paris city cleaning department as a source of income.
Valera proves to be corruptible. For a princely fee, he was persuaded by Secretary Calvo to praise the life's work of the great Mr Rubio senior - called a memorandum for the anniversary - and accepted a job with his new master in London.
Valera is not a monster. He found Manuel the vacant post as night waiter. The host is pleased. That is a good thing, because he is currently looking for a Spanish-speaking successor for Valera.
Productions
- December 25, 1955, NDR, director: Gustav Burmester, music: Winfried Zillig . Will Quadflieg the Manuel Rubio, Elisabeth Flickenschildt his mother, Heinz Reincke the Nicolas Valera, Werner Hinz the Calvo and Kurt Fischer-Fehling the landlord spoke .
- 4th January 1956, SDR , directed by Otto Kurth .
- August 16, 1970, SRG Zurich, director: Robert Bichler .
Adaptation
- TV version, December 23, 1974, ZDF , Ludwig Cremer and Peter Göbbels .
reception
- Schwitzke gives the content.
- Wagner calls reviews - among others: "Cold and full of resignation" in: Die Welt from December 28, 1955 and "Does the funk drive towards the great form?" In: "Oldenburger Nachrichten" from January 6, 1956.
Recent comments
- Oppermann misses at least one unrealistic level of action (dream et cetera) that is otherwise customary for the author and thinks that of Günter Eich's radio plays written after 1945, “Pewter Scream” is the weakest. Because the criticism of capitalism failed. Oppermann also cites a devaluation of Schafroth from 1976: Since exploiters (Rubio sen.) And freedom fighters (journalist Valera) are villains, both of them could be right or neither of them. Ergo, the game contains practically nothing.
- Alber goes into the "role reversal" of Valera and Manuel, as well as the latter's troubles of conscience. Manuel seeks a clarifying conversation with his father, but cannot get in touch with the oligarch .
literature
Used edition
- Günter Eich: Pewter Scream (1955) . P. 151–195 in: Karl Karst (Ed.): Günter Eich. The radio plays 2. in: Collected works in four volumes. Revised edition. Volume III . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1991, without ISBN
Secondary literature
- Heinz Schwitzke (Ed.): Reclam's radio play guide. With the collaboration of Franz Hiesel , Werner Klippert , Jürgen Tomm. Reclam, Stuttgart 1969, without ISBN, 671 pages
- Michael Oppermann: Inner and outer reality in Günter Eich's radio play. Diss. University of Hamburg 1989, Reinhard Fischer publishing house, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-88927-070-0
- Sabine Alber: The place in free fall. Günter Eich's moles in the context of the entire work. Dissertation. Technische Universität Berlin 1992. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1992 (European university publications. Series I, German language and literature, vol. 1329), ISBN 3-631-45070-2
- 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)