The Dream Laundry: Exploring Work, Women, and Self-Empowerment in a Post-War Broadcast

2023-10-14 11:51:52

October 14, 2023, 2:00 PM

After completing her studies, the young writer worked in the script department of the US-controlled post-war broadcaster “Rot-Weiß-Rot” in Vienna. And it was here that the then 26-year-old’s genre debut was produced under the direction of Walter Davy. It was broadcast for the first time on February 28, 1952.

Today, the parable piece regarding a small employee to whom one wants to sell dreams at the price of his life is, not primarily, but nevertheless, a contemporary document. The authoritarian conditions in the world of work and the subservience of women depicted there seem oppressively antiquated. The piece can be understood in many ways: politically and socially critically as an examination of the economic miracle society and its “dream laundry”, in depth psychology as a failed attempt to escape into unreality or as a call for self-empowerment and a sovereign use of time. The dream seller says the key sentence in this regard: “But you will know that you cannot get dreams for money anywhere. You have to pay with time. Dreams cost time, some a lot of time.”

With Wolf Neuber (Laurenz), Traute Servi (Anna), Eric Frey (Mr. Mandl), Ulrich Bettac (The General Director), Erich Schenk (The Seller of Dreams), Charlotte Bauer, Auguste Ripper
Susi Waber, Gisela Fritz, Kurt Jaggberg, Herbert Kragora and Ernst Zeller, sound: Herbert Sbiral, Rudolf Tremmel, director: Walter Davy (RWR-W 1952)

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