Radio Art Zone # Mariola Brillowska: Polnische Hochzeit, eine unendliche Reise

Radio Art Zone is a 100-day radio art station by Radio ARA and Mobile Radio for the European Capital of Culture, Esch2022. It is broadcast in the south of Luxembourg by Radio ARA on 87.8 FM. It is also live-streamed for a worldwide audience and transmitted by a network of international partners.

On her never-ending train ride, Mariola Brillowska is constantly on the phone with the jury of the "Polish Wedding" competition she initiated. This is to take place in a Polish mountain resort near the Czech border. During the interminable journey, the weddings submitted to the competition are watched online as video films and judged.

The jury exchanges views about their own weddings, marriages, divorces. It plans the closing ceremony of the competition. Whether the initiator will arrive sometime and somewhere, whether she herself will even give her yes word to someone, and above all whether one or perhaps several couples will get married at all, depends on the constantly unpredictable changing itinerary.

To all appearances, the train's conductor is a ghost driver. Those who get on or off ahead of time and want to visit the wedding and guest house on their own can tour it online as a preview.

Voices: Mariola Brillowska, Günter Reznicek, Gloria Brillowska, Ludger Dünnebacke, Bela Brillowska, Felix Kubin, Claudia Basrawi.

Compositions: Mariola Brillowska, Günter Reznicek, Bela Brillowska, Felix Kubin, Richard von der Schulenburg, Jürgen Hall, Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy.

Lyrics, Concept, Realisation: Mariola Brillowska.

Mariola Brillowska, visual, media and performance artist as well as author, director and producer, was born and raised in Poland, emigrated to Germany at the age of 20, where she studied fine arts at the HfbK Hamburg; 2005-13 she was art professor at the HfG Offenbach/Main; works include novel "Hausverbot" 2013; winner of various film, poetry and radio play awards, e.g.. Grand Prix of the Short Film Festival Oberhausen 1991, Dresden Short Film Festival 1993, Film Festival Minsk 1997, 20 ARD Pin Ball Award 2014, Short Burning Micro of the Berlin Radio Play Festival 2017, MUVI - Oberhausen 2007 and 2017, German Short Film Award "Golden Lola" 2017; In the shortlist of nominees to Oscar Shorts 2019; Radio Play Critics Award "Adrienne" 2019; Winner of the German Film Critics Award 2019; 2021 Long Burning Micro of the Berlin Radio Play Festival.