Hell ride

Author: Friedrich Knilli

Genre: Feature

Production: Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Recording / First broadcast: May 2018 / 30.06.2018

Length: 54:24

Director: Götz Naleppa

Assistant Director: Vivien Schütz

Sound and technology: Thomas Monnerjahn

Contributors:

Friedrich Knilli, Helmut Mooshammer, Andreas Tobias

Content:

The rise and fall of the master tailor Josef Knilli in Graz.

Josef Knilli, the author's uncle, was a key player in the Aryanisation of the Spielmann clothing store in Graz. He rose from a small tailor in Fehring to become a major clothing store owner. Sometimes for, sometimes against the Nazis. He spent many years in prison, but regretted nothing. He died undefeated, accompanied by Mozart's "Don Giovanni".