Radio Play Live Reading: „The Beast of Fukushima“

  • by and with Jörg Buttgereit

Given the background of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster of Fukushima in 2011, Japanese monster and disaster movies seem almost predictive. All the catastrophic scenarios depicted in media images have already been anticipated in films. Possibly, this is one of the reasons for the disciplined reaction of the Japanese people facing the real disaster. For them, resurrected monsters like Godzilla are much more than just metaphors of the apocalypse. This live reading of Jörg Buttgereit’s radio play “The Beast of Fukushima” documents the events of March 11, 2011 with special emphasis on the monster as a symbol for last year’s disasters.

Director and author: Jörg Buttgereit
Actors: Jörg Buttgereit, Manuel Francescon, Thilo Gosejohann, Jens Peter Gust, Nina Hecklau, Robert Heil, Marc Iancu, Yuki Iwamoto, Tine Maria Miksch, Yuho Yamashita.