“Scardanelli”, with texts and music from Harald Bergmann’s acclaimed film of the same name, is presented as a German-language “audio book” which reflects on Hölderlin’s last years. Bergmann looks at Friedrich Hölderlin in the second half of his life, the 36 years the great poet spent under the care of the carpenter Zimmer in his Tübingen tower, writing poems, drawing, playing piano. He called himself “Scardanelli” and this was the name with which he signed the poems that he gave away to visitors. Actor Walter Schmidinger, known intentionally for his roles in Ingmar Bergmann’s “From the Life of the Marionettes” and “The Serpent’s Egg”, Maximilian Schell’s “Tales from the Vienna Woods” and other films, is very convincing in the title role, bringing shades of disturbance, irascibility and suffering to his reading of the Scardanelli poems.