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 job - and the collapse of these hopes.
The author wrote about his play:
The play does not want to be an act of self-pity; its author, himself affected, is far too involved in concrete work with and for the disabled... The problem of Stephan Wünschmann moves on the interpersonal level. In reality, it is not specific to the disabled, but is bundled in the figure of the disabled person as if in a burning glass. Wünschmann does not need 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 on behalf of the disadvantaged and ever-widening social isolation has become increasingly apparent. 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, outer appearance and inner being contradict each other.'

Remarks: Kunstkopfstereophony