Der kleine Tag

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Der kleine Tag
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LyricsWolfram Eicke
BookWolfram Eicke
Basis"Der kleine Tag" by Eincke
Productions1999 Münchner Planetarium
AwardsLeopold

Der kleine Tag (The Little Day) is a story by Wolfram Eicke which became known in a musical version in collaboration with Rolf Zuckowski and Hans Niehaus. The story was published in 1988. The musical, for children but not only children, appeared first in print in 1998, and as an audio play and CD in 1999 when it premiered as the Münchner Planetarium. The musical is often presented on stage, both by professionals and by schools and music schools. It received several awards.

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History

Wolfram Eicke  [ de ], an author of youth literature and Liedermacher (singer-songwriter) wrote a story "Der kleine Tag". He had the idea in 1984, [1] and it was published in 1988. [2] Together with Eincke, Rolf Zuckowski and Hans Niehaus  [ de ] derived a musical and audio play from the story "for children but not only for children". [3] It was published first in print by Hans Sikorski in 1998. [4] [3] It premiered at the Münchner Planetarium of Deutsches Museum in Munich in 1999, [5] and appeared on CD in 1999, also by Sikorski. [3] The speaker was Gunter Schoß, the title role was played by Lucie Schäfer, and the Mysterious Day by Bill Ramsey. [6] The musical has often been produced by project groups from schools and music schools, in Germany and abroad. [1] [6]

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Plot

The Little Day is one of several days, characters impersonating calendar days as Lichtwesen (light creature) living above the Earth. Each day, one of them comes to Earth and experiences things happening that day, including war, peace and inventions. Each day has only one chance, reports events on return, and gets ranked by the importance of the events, with sitting in the first row (Erste Reihe) in the meetings being the highest rank. [5] The Little Day waits impatiently for their chance on the next 23 April [5] (in the musical, while it is 23 February in the story), and talks to the Mysterious Day (Geheinsvoller Tag), a character who was ranked high, but isn't sure if the day was a good day, because that day lenses were invented, making glasses and other good inventions possible, but also better aiming of weapons (Zielfernrohr). The Mysterious Day explains that ranking is less important than being unique and authentic. [5]

On 23 April, the Little Day experiences events including a family moving, with their expectations and difficulties, repair work at a street, people waiting at a bus station and complaining about the weather, causing the little day to request the sun to shine. Other events include a class at school where a child has a birthday and receives a dog, and all children in the class imagining that animals are sitting in the class as pupils. In another, two people meet after a 50 year absence, a son and his father reconcile, a young couple dances in a park, and a family enjoys a picnic einfach nur so ("just like that" or "for no reason at all").

The Little Day returns happily but is not ranked high, because nothing special happened. The Mysterious Day is not able to console the Little Day's disappointment. The following year, the 23 April Day reports that people on Earth celebrated the day in memory of the day a year earlier, which had been the most peaceful days of all times, without wars, catastrophes or hunger. The report leads to an upgrade of the Little Day to first row. [5]

Music

The musical is scored for soloists, choir, orchestra and combo. The duration is given as 65 minutes. [4]

Reception and awards

The audio play/musical received the biennial award Leopold of the Verband deutscher Musikschulen  [ de ] (Association of German music schools) in 2001, recommending it as "Gute Musik für Kinder" (Good music for children", suitable for children from age 8. [3] It also received the special prize by a jury of children, the Poldi, from the WDR. [3] On the 10th anniversary of the premiere on 3 October 2009, the publisher issued a special edition of its newsletter, with interviews of authors and performer. It reported 2,650 performances on more than 300 stages. [1] In 2012, Eincke received a golden award when 150.000 CDs were sold. [6]

Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions, ARD. As well as contributing to the output of the national television channel Das Erste, WDR produces the regional television service WDR Fernsehen and six regional radio networks.

Musical numbers

  • Das Licht I (instrumental)
  • Ich bin nur heute
  • Erste Reihe – Spitzenklasse
  • Tage, die man nie vergisst
  • Der geheimnisvolle Tag (instrumental)
  • Du bist du
  • Aufbruch I (instrumental)
  • Das Dunkel und ich
  • Aufbruch II (instrumental)
  • Wahnsinn
  • Das Licht II (instrumental)
  • Schule für Tiere
  • Hier kommen wir
  • Heute I (instrumental)
  • Unterwegs I (instrumental)
  • Dies ist der Augenblick
  • Unterwegs II (instrumental)
  • Heute II (instrumental)
  • Einfach nur so
  • Mich ruft mein Stern
  • Erste Reihe – Spitzenklasse
  • Letzte Reihe – Gestern
  • Ich bin ich
  • Jeder Tag hat sein Geheimnis
  • Wohin?

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Danke für 10 Jahre Kleiner Tag / Ein Tag feiert Geburtstag!" (PDF) (in German). Hans Sikorski. 3 October 2009. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  2. ↑ Brückner, Iris. "Lehrerhandreichungen "Der kleine Tag"" (PDF). static.universal-music.de (in German). Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Gute Musik für Kinder / LEOPOLD 2001 / Der Kleine Tag / Das Musical-Hörspiel" (in German). Verband der Deutschen Musikschulen. 2001. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Zuckowski, Rolf (Komponist) / Zuckowski, Rolf / Niehaus, Hans / Eicke, Wolfram (Libretto) (Autoren) / Der kleine Tag". theatertexte.de (in German). Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Dörner, Michelle (22 June 2017). "Die Geschichte vom friedlichsten Tag aller Zeiten". medienbewusst.de (in German). Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  6. 1 2 3 "Der "Kleine Tag" wird vergoldet - Ehrung für Wolfram Eicke, den "Vater" des Musical-Hörspiels" (in German). Hans Sikorski. August 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
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