Radio plays
"Hell's Journey"
Author: Friedrich Knilli
Genre: Feature
Production: Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Recording / first broadcast: May 2018 / 30. 6. 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".