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Feature

Chinese Win - Win

of everyday life of German architects in Beijing

http://www.mdr.de/mdr-figaro/hoerspiel/5676899.html

MDR Figaro 08/09/2008

Barbara Kenneweg

The Chinese Feature Win - Win is about a German architect and his family.

The architect is Matthew with his wife Anne and his two sons, about two years ago moved to Beijing where he worked in an architectural office.

The reader's attention is maintained by the Multiple Uses of the relevance factors. Most often it uses the factors the curiosity and the drama. It is very curious that Matthew is not well able to communicate with its employees and depend on help from the drawings. That the family can not spend their free time in public, without being seen by the Chinese as a sensation and forced, is also a very unusual situation. When told, is that the Chinese are so intrusive that even the uneducated children react to the compassion be aroused in the audience. These small situations from the life of the family make the article more interesting.

The drama also plays a major role in the feature. Particularly the information that Matthias in Deutschland wahrscheinlich arbeitslos wäre, lässt Gefühle aufkommen. Dazu kommt, dass der Mann 80 Stunden in der Woche arbeiten muss und somit seine Familie vernachlässigen muss. Das Mitleid des Zuhörers wird jedoch schnell von Matthias auf die Chinesen gelenkt. Es wird berichtet, dass Matthias als deutscher bevorzugt wird, denn ein Chinese erhält für die gleiche Arbeit und den gleichen Zeitaufwand nur die Hälfte des Lohns. Zusätzlich verwendet der Autor als Relevanzfragen: Fortschritt und Folgenschwere. Aufgelockert wird das Feature durch kleine Zitate von Matthias oder seiner Frau. Es sind kleine Geschichten aus dem Leben, die lustige oder eigenartige Beispiele über die Missverständnisse zwischen der Familie und represent the Chinese. This leaves the family appear human and sympathetic. It can be close to the family. It also raises the voyeurism in the audience, for small stories from the lives of other people are often very appealing. The author has made it clear, give us a glimpse into the life of an architect to manage the family and work in China and needs to address. Perhaps some German architects also serves as a decision for a career in a foreign land to begin.

Nadia Bruckmann