German-Swiss radio cooperation for dialect radio play
Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), Südwestrundfunk (SWR) and Radio Bremen are going on air for the first time with a joint radio play in dialect.
The production of the public broadcasters unites the three respective regional languages and brings them to life, announced SWR in Baden-Baden. Zurich German, South Baden Alemannic and Low German will be spoken. It is reportedly the first cooperation of its kind on the radio.
The radio play is reportedly a 50-minute monologue in dialect by the Black Forest author Hugo Rendler. The radio play entitled "Abgfahre" tells the story of a southern German bus driver who reaches his limits.
The Schaffhausen playwright Andri Beyeler has translated the original, which was originally set in the border region of southern Baden, into dialect for SRF and adapted it to Swiss conditions. "A de Grenz" is the title in Alemannic, and "an de Grenz" in the Low German version.
Those involved worked on the production for around a year. The radio play will be broadcast on Friday (April 10) at 8 p.m. on SRF1 and at 10:03 p.m. on SWR2. Radio Bremen and Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) will broadcast the radio play at the beginning of May. (SDA)
