Rampage in Vienna

Vienna in the 1920s. A gunman has barricaded on a Vienna church tower and shooting at passers-by. Policeman Karl Gruber, who is entrusted with the solution of this situation, asks Freud to persuade the man to give up before a team of soldiers storm the tower and shoot him. Freud stay out two hours why the man is crazy.

Freud, the brilliant psychoanalyst, the one likes it or not, to take as a hero of a series of radio plays, is quite creative. The first two episodes, I found a few years ago rather dull to moderate, slowly seems the series but to gain momentum, and the cases are simply better. This time it comes to post dream tables stress by war experiences and violence and abuse of power in training. I personally do not think that one has in 1920 already recognized these relationships because they have not been viewed, even after the Second World War as a mental illness. Hard as Krupp steel, only the tough get into the garden, a boy does not cry and how the sayings and then still called that. I therefore consider the diagnosis of premature and therefore anachronistic.
Ultimately, it is here only to Deaskalation how even today in many detective stories. As the psychologist is called in to the hostage-takers or loaded bern gunman and analyze until the beigibt small. The charm of the radio play is more in the still harsher tones and extreme means, which were then called in to violent solution and that everything is rather low tech.
The speakers are very good and also the acoustic implementation is consistent and succeeded. I'll now particularly the discussion of Freud with the superego and id, which he is fighting in its interior.
Conclusion: Although the radio play is rather quiet, not much going on and it's very predictable, it is still well done and professional radio drama entertainment of STIL / HR from the year 2011 and thus runs from time to time on the radio.

Sigmund Freud Hanspeter Hallwachs
Anna Freud - Felicitas Woll
Karl Gruber - Andreas Fröhlich
Superego - Nicolas Artajo
It - Cathlen Gawlich
Volkan Adanalic - Thomas Schmuckert
Captain Stadlmeyer - Romanus Fuhrmann
Lieutenant Schramm - Andreas Sparnberg
Chief of Police Schober - Jürgen Thormann
Blanka Adanalic - Dorka Gryllus
Uhrmachermeister Göldl - Gordon Piedesack
Brother Joseph - Mathis Schrader