Nach dem Regen (After the Rain)

Starting in September 2016 HMKV presents, in cooperation with Deutschlandradio Kultur, a new series in the Lautsprecher:
THE CITY AS SEEN FROM ABOVE – Audio works and artistic radio features addressing the city and public space.
The view on the city becomes a constitutive element of the sound works: No matter if we listen to administrative officers who are secretly smoking on the rooftop and chatting about their problems or whether we listen to federal homeland security agents during an observation of suspect person in a hotel room across the street – one has the impression that these things are literally taking place in front of the window.

Nach dem Regen
Sergi Belbel
DeutschlandRadio Berlin 1998
73:25 Min.

Do you know that feeling you get, standing on the roof of a tall building, smoking a cigarette? In Sergi Belbel's comedy, there is a smoking ban. Eight administrative assistants meet in a secret rebellion to indulge in their lust and send up their metropolitan neuroses in a blue haze. Always close to human disaster, they are hoping for the rain, which may cool the tempers.

Sergi Belbel, born in 1963 in Terrassa/Barcelona, philologist, translator, internationally renowned playwright, TV features writer, teacher and director. "Premio de la Critica Serra d'Or" 1994 and "Premio Nacional de Literatura Catalana" 1994 for "Després de la Pluja".