Radio plays

"The Short Dream from Kagithane"

Author: Aras Ören (Turkey 1939)
Genre: Radio play
Production: RIAS 1976
Director: Götz Naleppa
Editing: Jürgen Theobaldy
Length: 64 min.
Translation: Schmiede, H.A. (from Turkish)
Sound and technology: Dönitz; Oettinger

Participants: Michael Degen, Christian Brückner, Reinhard Bülow, Georg Corten, Sibylle Gilles, Helmut Krauss, Norbert Langer, a.o.

Content: Kagithane is the poor district of Istanbul, where many of Berlin's Turkish guest workers come from. One follows a few of these fates and experiences them through the splendidly pictorial language. Ören brings Turkish atmosphere, the rich linguistic tradition is not denied, and it blends in the most natural way with the author's modern views. He doesn't create an Ottoman fairy-tale atmosphere or make the depressing everyday life of Naunynstraße seem nebulous. Rather, he brings these people from another world very close to us, teaches us to finally understand their way of reacting and thinking.


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