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In her radio play debut, Paulina Czienskowski tells of the conflicts of a nuclear family, of the speechlessness and brutality of not understanding one another. The boundaries between dream, reality and memory - between humans and animals - become blurred. ********************************* More radio plays from Deutschlandfunk Kultur: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/... ABOUT THE PIECE: In her work, Paulina Czienskowski tries to filter out and name the special nature of the often unnoticed everyday. "But they didn't think anything through" sheds light on the fragile family life of the now adult Claude, where the bitter argument between her parents smoldered over every trivial matter and any communication became an almost life-threatening tightrope walk. With a dissecting and poetic subtlety that is as much about analysis as it is about imagining, Claude observes and describes, remembering and imagining, the rituals of effort, speechlessness, hostility and alienation in the "completely normal" everyday madness of father, mother, child and cat. Original broadcast But they didn't think anything through to the end By Paulina Czienskowski Directed by: Lena Brasch With: Lisa Hrdina, Meriam Abbas and Manuel Harder Composition: Philipp Thimm Sound and technology: Martin Eichberg and Susanne Beyer Production: Deutschlandfunk Kultur 2021 THE AUTHOR: Paulina Czienskowski, born in 1988, studied German and art history, lives and works as a freelance journalist and author in her hometown of Berlin after stays in the USA and Paris. 2018/19 collection of short stories with self-recorded radio play "Manifesto against emotional atrophy", 2020 debut novel "Taubenleben". Image source: Unsplash / Akin