Desc: Die Verhaftung des Johann Nepomuk Nestroy: Directed by Dieter Berner. With Fritz Karl, Eva Herzig, Abbas Meriam, Giora Seeliger. In the 19th century the Austrian playwright Johann Nepomuk Nestroy adapts British and French plays for the theatres of Wien. Using ambiguous allusions he makes a fool of the Austrian police state. The first performance of his play "Lumpazivagabundus" causes his arrest by the secret police.