The Conquest of the South Pole

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German playwright Manfred Karge wrote The Conquest of the South Pole in 1986, three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The play concerns the soul-eroding problems of prolonged unemployment - a dilemma afflicting many today in 2007. The play follows four men in a small town who stave off the despair of joblessness by re-enacting Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole in an attic.