Friedrich Von Schiller

Sehen, Hören, Riechen und auch noch über's Wasser gehen. Die Badewanne ist für Volker Arzt der vertraute, ideale Ort, um die Geheimnisse und Alltäglichkeiten rund um's Wasser aus Biologie und Physik verständlich zu machen.

Der Flüsterwitz im Dritten Reich wandte sich gegen den allgegenwärtigen Repressionsapparat des Staates, war aber auch ein Zeichen der Ohnmacht und der Resignation seiner Bürger. Ziele waren die desolate Versorgungslage ebenso wie Obrigkeitshörigkeit, verlogene Ideologie und Propaganda und natürlich die "Oberen" in Regierung und Militär. Der Flüsterwitz vermittelt Aufschlüsse über die wahre Stimmung der Bevölkerung und dokumentiert hautnahe Zeitgeschichte. Das Hörbuch ist eine Chronologie des Dritten Reiches - von der Machtergreifung bis zu den Nürnberger Prozessen. "Wie sieht der ideale Deutsche aus? Blond wie Hitler, groß wie Goebbels, schlank wie Göring und keusch wie Röhm."

When Schiller completed Wilhelm Tell as a "New Year's Gift for 1805" he foretold that it would cause a stir. He was right. In the midst of Great Power politics a play which drew substance from one of the fourteenth-century liberation movements proved both attractive and inflammatory. Since then the work as become immensely popular. This new English translation by William F. Mainland brings out the essential tragi-comic nature of Wilhelm Tell but also emphasizes its impressive formal unity. Schiller based his play on chronicles of the Swiss liberation movement, in which Wilhelm Tell played a major role. Since Tell's existence has never been proven, Schiller, a historian by profession, felt he had to devise a figure who would bring the uncertainties and contradictions of the various Swiss chronicles into focus. Respected for his courage and skill with a bow, for his peaceable nature and his integrity, Schiller's archer-while always ready to aid his fellows-habitually seeks solitude. In the midst of political turmoil Wilhelm Tell is the nonpolitical man of action. Keenly interested in the problematic interplay of history and legend, Schiller turned it to be dramatic advantage. He constructed his play to illustrate the greatest possible development of the character traits suggested for Tell by the chronicles. The result of Schiller's supreme achievement in historical drama.