"M" Monologue
| "M" by Paul Falkenberg | |
| Character: | Hans Beckert |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age (range): | 18 - 55 |
| Style: | Unspecified |
| Length: | 2 minutes |
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Hans Beckert: What do you know about it? Who are you anyway? Who
are you? Criminals? Are you proud of yourselves? Proud of breaking safes
or cheating at cards? Things you could just as well keep your fingers
off. You wouldn't need to do all that if you'd learn a proper trade or
if you'd work. If you weren't a bunch of lazy bastards. But I... I can't
help myself! I have no control over this, this evil thing inside of me,
the fire, the voices, the torment!
[Schränker asks Hans a question]
Hans Beckert: It's there all the time, driving me out to wander
the streets, following me, silently, but I can feel it there. It's me,
pursuing myself! I want to escape, to escape from myself! But it's impossible.
I can't escape, I have to obey it. I have to run, run... endless streets.
I want to escape, to get away! And I'm pursued by ghosts. Ghosts of mothers
and of those children... they never leave me. They are always there...
always, always, always!, except when I do it, when I... Then I can't remember
anything. And afterwards I see those posters and read what I've done,
and read, and read... did I do that? But I can't remember anything about
it! But who will believe me? Who knows what it's like to be me? How I'm
forced to act... how I must, must... don't want to, must! Don't want to,
but must! And then a voice screams! I can't bear to hear it! I can't go
on! I can't... I can't...
