Author(s): Götz Naleppa (BRD *1943)
Genre: 1TP4Audio drama
Editor: Götz Naleppa 
Production: RIAS 1978 Min. 
Director: Götz Naleppa

Content:
The 10th grade of a secondary school in Berlin-Tempelhof deals with one of the most popular results of the New Radio Play, which was awarded the Radio Play Prize of the War Blind in 1968: "5 Mann Menschen" by the Austrian authors Ernst Jandl and Friederike Mayröcker. Here, the lives of 5 people from birth to death are presented in a pointed and telegram-like manner - in only 14 minutes. This motivated the pupils to write and produce a radio play themselves. They used the formal language of the model by presenting 'A Day in the Life of Pupil X' in a short radio play and found the formal peculiarity of the New Radio Play suitable for expressing their own problems in it as well. The artificiality of this form was obviously not an obstacle, but rather an incentive to play. The result was "20 Mann Menschen".