Author: Kurt Kreiler (FRG 1950)
Genre: Radio play
Production: RIAS 1991
Director: Götz Naleppa
Length: 57 min.
Sound and technology: Czekalski; Belling

Contributors:
Bessie: Naomi Krauss
Enamel: Jean-Claude Mawila
Thekla: Tilly Lauenstein
Jacob: Erich Schellow
Policeman: Dietrich Lehmann

Content:
An old couple - Thekla, asthmatic, Jakob, walking impaired - interrupt (for a breather) their hike from Berlin to 'Staaken' to have a snack on a plant bench in the urban wilderness. Young Bessie, frozen on this very bench because she is waiting for 'dope' that Smelz is supposed to get for her from the pharmacy, has to endure Thekla's tale of woe, recited with effort. Jakob, the unsuccessful dilettante artist, reflects on the gold ground in painting, on his wife and the chicken enema, while Smelz, a wimpy young man, takes a shot at himself and Bessie. With a demonstration announced, the encirclement begins: the threatening proximity of police, talk radio and barriers. While Bessie rages and Smelz panics, the old couple dominates the scene. Cunningly, they cast the net of their stories, in which the law enforcers also flounder. Smelz breaks free, Bessi shows solidarity with the superior fantasists.