What makes a day a good day, and don’t we long for calm and peaceful moments rather than sensational and spectacular ones? These questions are raised in the school musical “Der kleine Tag” by Wolfram Eicke and Rolf Zuckowski on the evening of 26 June 2025 in the hall of the Johannes-Brenz-Gemeinschaftsschule.
It is Der kleine Tag who, as the protagonist of the play, is finally allowed to travel to Earth as a being of light after a long wait. Once there, he moves past houses, bus stops and cars – all props that the drama group of the 6th year groups had made themselves in advance. Der kleine Tag watches the people with curiosity and encounters everyday things. Passers-by complain about the bad weather. Someone moves house. A schoolchild has a birthday and is given a dog. People meet by chance after 50 years, have a picnic in the park or fall in love along the way.
Der kleine Tag is delighted by what he has observed. Filled with enthusiasm from his visit to Earth, he returns to the realm of light, where he tells the other days about his experiences. Unlike him, the other days are not very impressed. For them, there is no sensation and nothing special. Der kleine Tag is not allowed to sit in the front row with the great days; instead, he has to sit in the back row with the unspectacular days.
Only a year later it becomes clear that people celebrate the visit of the little day as a festival of peace and reconciliation. From then on, Der kleine Tag may move up to the front row with the eventful and great days, because in hindsight all the days have realised: “It was a completely normal day. But a good one!”
Alongside songs by the lower-school choir from Years 5 to 7 and the lead soloists of the Year 6 classes, Nele Berroth and Zoe Karpf, the Year 11 students Sophia Fürnschuß and Jolene Bartholme frame the story of the musical by reading out individual passages. Jannis Krämer is responsible for the musical direction, while Miriam Bay is in charge of the dramaturgy. Both work at the school as teachers. In addition to Jannis Krämer, the teacher Markus Schneider and the pupil Max Schreyer from class 9d provide the musical accompaniment.
It is often the seemingly simple and obvious insights that are worth repeating again and again. And so the lower-school choir and everyone involved in the musical at the Johannes-Brenz-Gemeinschaftsschule hope that, above all, the children of this world may get to experience more normal days like this one.
