A really old story

I do not know the novel, but it should be assumed that the yet known / famous author has designed an elaborate story with complex people. None of this can be seen in this radio play. Lengthy, antiquated, without highlights ripples action then. That the Hauke ​​Haien is a loner who still surprisingly makes a career move that problems exist with his foreman, he zum Deichgraf with its suggestions for improvements to the dikes, which are then implemented, pushes to transport resistances, his family problems with his wife and daughter that everything is only touched upon in this radio play, rarely deepens, the story ripples on the surface, affects only old and long-winded.
It might not even enough as a teaser to read the written amendment. But that is not safe, as they probably have too much local color and inherent only resident the existential threat of a dam failure.