The final coup, the great campaign of revenge, the perfect tricks: In the most exciting radio broadcasts of the coming days, the main characters are looking for a riot.
Criminals everywhere
Sörensen is a detective superintendent with an anxiety disorder. In Sörensen at the end of the world he has his third radio play – played again by Bjarne Mädel (DLF Kultur, Monday, 10:03 p.m.). The passenger from November 1st is a three-part crime story by Georges Simenon – staged for radio in 1956 (NDR Kultur, Sundays, 7 p.m.). Six years later, the six-part crime thriller became Terra incognita Directed by Philip Levene, with Horst Tappert in one of the leading roles (Bayern 2, Wednesdays, 8:05 p.m.). From the point of view of the criminal, the crime story is Parker: The big gold told (WDR 3, Friday, 7:04 p.m.).
Galloping madness
In Thilo Gosejohann’s grotesque Baggergeddon a man freaks out and races to Berlin with a souped-up lignite excavator with the aim of razing the Reichstag to the ground (DLF Kultur, Wednesday, 10:03 p.m.). The blue milk channel is a satire by Ephraim Kishon on state bureaucracy (WDR 3, Monday, 7:04 pm). What is bizarre about the story of the inventor Gustav Mesmer is how society has dealt with him – he was locked away in a psychiatric hospital for many years. Andreas Ammer, Micha and Markus Acher and Cico Beck tell Mesmer’s story in their radio play I try to fly (Bayern 2, Friday, 9:05 p.m.).
Last days
In the feature The attraction reports Helmut Kopetzky about Billy Wilder’s filming of his east-west comedy One two Three in Berlin, who were torpedoed by the construction of the wall (RBB Kultur, Saturday, 2 p.m.). Ralf Bei der Kellen has for his feature Too Old To Die Young Accompanied for three years two men who have been punks for more than 40 years (DLF Kultur, Tuesday, 10:03 p.m.). In a – supposedly better past – an old couple is arrested in the radio play We were (SR 2, Sunday, 5:04 p.m.).