Exakte Vision is a prequel, an audio drama, a film without pictures, says Ulrike Haage. A story about Helen Hessel, it is set near Lake Starnberger in South Germany in the 1920s. This was an area that proved attractive to many scientists and artists, including writers Pierre Roché and Franz Hessel whose wife Helen then had an affair with Pierre. The story acted as the central plot to several novels and, not least, François Truffaut’s film Jules et Jim (1962) through which it became world famous. The diary extracts as such remained unpublished until 1991 when André Dimanche,
assisted by his son Ulrich and the late Stéphane Hessel, published them. This exceptional audio drama, which embeds parts of Helen’s diary as play and sound elements in a filmic scenario, is to be presented as a MO Loudspeaker »insert« at the Dortmund Arts Centre.
With the support of Bavarian Radio, the Museum am Ostwall, Ulrike Haage and the Sans Soleil Publishing Company

Voices Andreas Grothgar (Franz) and Tonio Arrango (Pierre) | Voices and singing Meret Becker (Helen), Katharina Franck (Bobann), Judith Engel (Fanny) and Mathias Maschke (Cook) | Keyboards, typewriter and electronics Ulrike Haage | on the sound sculptures Meret Becker