Duration: 40 minutes

"Under Arrest!" is a walk-in radio play that leads into a fictional GDR prison world. Participants go through the apparatus of dictatorship. Prison inmates talk about their everyday life, about humiliation, their anger and resignation. But the perpetrators also have a voice, be it a fanatical overseer or the lieutenant colonel during interrogation. The revolution is lurking for its chance and in the finale events roll over. Individual building blocks of the plot are based on real people, their expressions and historical events. The "interrogation protocols" of the regime critic Jürgen Fuchs, for example, are used, as are descriptions of former prisoners or quotes from people from contemporary history.

 
 

Speaker:
Anna Mateur, Anna Katharina Muck, Monika Hildebrand, Michael Specht, Christian Claus, Hilmar Eichhorn, Tom Quaas, Thomas Stecher, Viktor Tremmel, Albrecht Goette, Günther Kurze, Ludwig Blochberger, Michael Heuser

Sound design:
Nikolaus Woernle

Text and direction:
Harriet Maria and Peter Meining

The walk-in radio play “Under Arrest” was funded by Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen and by Kulturstiftung Dresden der Dresdner Bank.