Author: Peter Radtke (FRG 1943)
Genre: Radio play
Production: RIAS 1981
Director: Götz Naleppa
Length: 77 min.
Sound and technology: Hans Martin; Hohensee

Contributors:
Stephan Wünschmann: Peter Radtke

Content:
The monologue play "Nachricht vom Grottenolm" shows a day in the life of wheelchair user Stephan Wünschmann, his hopes for a human love relationship and a meaningful profession - and the collapse of these hopes.
The author wrote about his play:
'The play is not intended to be an act of self-pity; its author, himself affected, is far too involved in concrete work with and for the disabled for that... Stephan Wünschmann's problem is on an interpersonal level. In reality, it is not specific to the disabled, but is focussed in the figure of the disabled person as if in a burning glass. Wünschmann needs no financial support, he is one of the privileged 'invalids' - but he lacks what so many in our society lack. The feeling of security and love. In recent years, the discrepancy between external efforts in favour of the disadvantaged and ever-increasing social isolation has become ever clearer. The louder the progress is praised, the bleaker it looks behind the façade of fine words and laws... Thus, in the fate of Stephan Wünschmann, outward appearance and inner reality contradict each other.

Remarks: Kunstkopfstereophony