In the best radio broadcasts of the coming days, the focus is on the desire for freedom. And everything that sets limits, whether walls, the pandemic or the finances.
In the wrong life
The author Tino Kühn grants his two main characters in the radio play Noise the fulfillment of your dream: You have got hold of an apartment in an old building in a coveted part of the city, you are expecting a child, the café on the ground floor is exactly to your taste. But it quickly seems stale to the father-to-be – because he is actually against gentrification and the new narrow-mindedness (SWR 2, Sunday, 6:20 p.m.). The self-esteem of those who are far from moving into an expensive apartment in an old building is shaken in a much more lasting manner: Gesche Piening appears in the radio play I’m broke without me into the psyche of people who are heading for personal bankruptcy (Bayern 2, Friday, 9:05 p.m.).
Paths to Freedom
The feature I feel stupid and contagious is the acoustic diary of a puberty in lockdown, it accompanies nine teenagers through the spring of 2021 (DLF, Friday, 8:05 p.m.). The Federal Constitutional Court was founded 70 years ago, in September 1951. Gigi Deppe explores the question in his feature: Who would we be without the red robes? (SWR 2, Sunday, 2:05 p.m.). The feature The wall jumpers is about two young people in the GDR who discovered a way to get to West Berlin in 1971 – and made use of it several times (RBB Kultur, Saturday, 2 p.m.).
Stormy nights
The radio play has repeatedly made use of literature classics, some of these adaptations can be heard in the coming days: The storm for example, based on the drama by William Shakespeare, in a production by the GDR radio station from 1966 (DLF Kultur, Sunday, 6.30 p.m.). aside from that Hymns to the night by Novalis, with Angela Winkler, Jens Harzer and Wolfgang Michael (DLF, Tuesday, 8.10 p.m.) and, as a two-parter, The dirty hands by Jean-Paul Sartre (SR 2, Sundays, 5:04 p.m.).