Natural forces, superstition and the ghostly figure of a rider in the moonlight

"As you saw from the North Frisian shores of a small holm. Apart from a few seagulls and other birds had left the island, and on moonlit evenings you could see from the dike only Nebeldünste, and a couple of pale skeletons of drowned sheep and the skeleton of a horse, in which no one knew how it got there. "
Mysterious legends, dark traditional tales at night presented a whisper in the firelight shape the world of experience of coastal populations in North Frisia.
Legends of the night riding a sinister rider on a white horse in the storm and driving rain on the dike areas.
In the tavern strangers and people passing through the tragic, sinister story of Hauke ​​sharks, the former reeve, of here victims of evil forces and supernatural events was once in 1756 and whose gruesome fate and his small family sealed in a huge storm surge itself.
"And one day, the strange white horse skeleton was gone on the holm, and on that day came Hauke ​​sharks home from the market, bringing a mold to take home. He was so skinny that you could each fin count, his eyes were dull and sunken in the skull caves. "
Has Hauke ​​sharks get sold by the devil himself, the ghost horse, he will, because each new dike, which is to keep in storms, a living sacrifice to be offered, plunge themselves to death?
Theodor Storm mysterious Geistermär is great German literature, and who was lucky to have not gotten it spoiled by the struggle through as a school reading pleasure, the Theodor Storm was perhaps the most famous novella quite laid once in a book to my heart.
The life-long struggle of the emerging, forward-thinking Hauke ​​sharks, of the dikemaster works his way up from farm boy, always has to fight against superstition, mistrust and resentment of his fellow men, and finally falls victim perhaps more dreadful forces, is one thing above all: A delicate, slowly developing narrative full of peasant period atmosphere, moody atmosphere and importance of pregnant ominous hints.
Titania proves here once again great courage to take on such a complex story, can produce truly hypnothisches listening cinema with authentic atmospheres and sounds, pointedly used melodies and haunting Sprechern.Hier each seagulls, dogs barking every roar of the surf, each quietly creeps exciting singsong when cold Fog over the Hallig draw brilliantly composed. One almost feels himself to feel the sea salt on the skin.
Marc group shortens the story although in some places, but this fall is not more significant.
Wonderful, that he, in contrast to the two most famous cinema films adheres to Storms construction of a framework for action.
While in 1820 the wind roars resistant to the coasts, and the pale specter of mold rider's back for more horror. tells the schoolmaster in retrospect the whole strange story.
At speakers Titania has everything again ascended what the big names. Peter Weis, Dagmar von Kurmin, Hasso anger, Johannes Raspe, Horst Naumann and all other performers can hear every single word and as a listening experience of the highest formal completion is "Der Schimmelreiter" once again become.
What Titania Gruselkabinett so well known and has also won many awards is the great versatility of the materials set to music.
With the mostly great consequences of this label, the listener is sent on shower romantic trips ranging from "Notre Dame de Paris" on Lovecraftian parallel worlds, on vampire myths to a Mystery Pulp Story in New York Al Capone ("Mrs.Mandilipps Dolls") , and here make a stopover in the North Frisian legends.
This rich diversity makes the series so imaginative and unique.
But connected to it, of course, that not every story can please everyone.
The directorial quality of each episode is at the highest level and bad reviews so often come about through false expectations to the respective story.
So was, once again noted the radio play "Der Schimmelreiter" adheres meticulously to the slow dignified tension structure of literary text, draws its effect from mysterious, spunbonded North Sea Coast Flair and also of the tragedy of a life -Biographie who like a classic Entwicklungsroman from childhood, adolescence is told to the end of a disastrous fate. If you like the entire first CD is first of all exposure to zuzulegen then in the second of drama.
The constant conflict between reason and progress on the one hand and the dark forces of nature on the other side, which is well worked out striking here by Marc Group.
Fast Horror, ostensible exciting twists are not likely to improve in this episode, but the friends of an epic narrative substance for which you once needed a longer breath come here of their costs.

"Some nights, they say, the bones are to collect and act as if they were alive."