The short novel The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1972) is a literary pamphlet by the Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll. The novel is subtitled How violence develops and where it can lead and is a five-day story of sensationalist journalism, of a media lynch by the tabloids that destroys the life of the 27-year-old housekeeper Katharina Blum. Without any substantial evidence, the yellow press proclaims her to be a “terrorist bride”, because she’d spent a night with a Ludwig Götten, accused of terrorism, who in the end turned out to be an ordinary robber.
“The persons and the action of this novel are fictional. If describing certain journalistic practices recalled similarities to the practices of the Bild newspaper, then these similarities are neither intended nor coincidental, but inevitable,” wrote Böll, when he revealed the police’s dirty business in the “witch hunt” and disclosed how conspiracy theories develop in the superfluous tabloid press. What happened to Katharina Blum happened to Ulrike Meinhof in 1971. |
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Cast
Actors:
Romana Šalehar - Katharina Blum
Matej Recer - Beizmenne
Janja Majzelj - Sheikh Karl, First tenant, Female tenant, Journalist 1, Katharina's mother, Hertha Scheumel
Ivan Peternelj - Second tenant, Tötges, Hach, Priest, Male voice
Neda R. Bric - Pletzer, Else Woltersheim, Journalist 3
Damjana Černe - Trude Blorna, Claudia Sterm, Female commentator
Robert Prebil - Hubert Blorna, Male commentator
Primož Bezjak - Ludwig Götten, Moeding, Wilhelm Brettloh, Alois Sträubleder
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Author of the novel
Heinrich Böll
Adaptation and dramaturgy
Blažka Müller Pograjc
Director
Matjaž Pograjc
Set and lighting design
Tomaž Štrucl
Costume design
Mateja Benedetti
Music
Tibor Mihelič Syed
Language consultant
Mateja Dermelj
Photos and Newspaper design
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Sound design
Silvo Zupančič
Make-up artist
Barbara Pavlin
Stage manager
Urša Červ
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