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DREI TEILE DÜRRENMATT. Eine Podcast-Serie der Theaterwerkstatt Gleis 5 Die Theaterwerkstatt Gleis 5 in Frauenfeld präsentiert zum Jubiläumsjahr von Friedrich Dürrenmatt einen dreiteiligen Podcast – wir wünschen viel Vergnügen! Anlässlich des 100. Geburtstages des Schweizer Schriftstellers Friedrich Dürrenmatt hat sich Judith Zwick – Teammitglied der Theaterwerkstatt – auf Lektüre-Reise begeben. Während Anfang des Jahres coronabedingt die Theater schliessen und Kontakte reduziert werden mussten, hat sie sich einfach durch das Gesamtwerk gelesen. »Das sind tatsächlich ganze 37 ...

Midway between the satire of Spinal Tap and the pathos of American Beauty lies the schizophrenic state of mind known as hog fever. On the surface this is the story of a man, a motorcycle, and a teetering bank balance. But lurking beneath, occasionally visible like threads through faded denim, is the story of a man in search of freedom - or at least a last stab at it.

Professor Dena Montgomery might be young, only 19, but she is a mathematical Olympiad with a genius-level IQ, earning a PhD for her at 16. Yet, her large family calls her The Absentminded Professor, with good reason. Dena can recite the calculus for the Pythagorean theorem as if it is her home address, but can’t, for her life, remember what is on her grocery list or whether she eats three meals on any given day.

Episode Five: Gordon Kahn arrives with his family in Manchester, New Hampshire, in the winter of 1955. Soon after, a "friend" informs on him to the state Attorney General, a nationally known Red Hunter named Louis Wyman. Wyman launches an investigation that becomes front-page news. FBI surveillance and wiretaps are resumed; the children are beaten up at school and Kahn is threatened with twenty years in prison for refusing to cooperate. Kahn's wife Barbara looks for work as a schoolteacher and learns she has been blacklisted, too. Kahn, earning a small living under the pseudonym of Hugh G....