METEOROLOGISCHE ÄSTHETIK IN WOLFGANG HILDESHEIMERS „BIOSPHÄRENKLÄNGE“ (1977)
AN AESTHETICS OF WEATHER IN WOLFGANG’S HILDESHEIMER “BIOSPHERE SOUNDS” (1977)

Summary/Abstract: In Biosphere Sounds, Wolfgang Hildesheimer imagines an ecological apocalypse. The characters of this radio drama experience the final, ecological breakdown of the biosphere as a strangely acute “sound”. By relating to Elke Huwiler’s Radio Drama Analysis, the paper aims in conceptualizing Timothy Morton’s post-human term of “hyperobject” in the theoretical frame of Michael Gamper’s “aesthetic of whether”. A hyperobject of its own, the “sound” of Hildesheimer’s play anticipates the “Weird” that characterizes ecological interaction in Anthropocene. Applying to Morton’s analysis of the “Weird”, the essay deals with the metaphorical representation of man as a barometer.

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