Der kleine Tag  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, first appeared in print in 1998, and as an audio play and CD in 1999 when it premiered at the Münchner Planetarium. The musical is often presented on stage, both by professionals and by schools and music academies. It received several awards.  , an author of youth literature and a "Liedermacher" (singer-songwriter), wrote the story "Der kleine Tag". He had the idea in 1984, and it was published in 1988. Together with Eicke, Rolf Zuckowski and derived a musical and audio play from the story "for children but not only for children". It was first published in print by Hans Sikorski in 1998. It premiered at the Münchner Planetarium of the Deutsches Museum in Munich in 1999, and appeared on CD in 1999, also by Sikorski. The narrator was Gunter Schoß, the title role was played by Lucie Schäfer, and the Mysterious Day by Bill Ramsey. The musical has often been produced by project groups from schools and music academies in Germany and abroad. The Little Day is one of several characters impersonating calendar days as "Lichtwesen" (light creatures) 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 character 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. The Little Day waits impatiently for its chance on the next 23 April (in the musical, while it is 23 February in the story), and talks to the Mysterious Day ("Geheimnisvoller Tag"), a character who was ranked high, but is unsure if the day was a good day, because that day lenses were invented, making glasses and other good inventions possible but also the better aiming of weapons ("Zielfernrohr"). The Mysterious Day explains that ranking is less important than being unique and authentic. On 23 April, the Little Day experiences events including a family moving, with their expectations and difficulties, repair work on a street, and people waiting at a bus station and complaining about the weather, causing the Little Day to ask the sun to shine.