Author: Fitzgerald Kusz (FRG 1944)
Genre: Radio play
Production: BR 1992
Director: Götz Naleppa
Music: 440 Hz / Kupzcik, Spung
Length: 67 min.
Sound and technology: Schmidt, Schulze

Contributors:
Jörg Hube, Gabriele Kastner, Katharina Reidel, Michael Vogtmann, Gilbert von Schlern, Herbert Lehnert, Ingrid Schölderle, Götz Naleppa, Holger Buck, a.o.

Content:
Hebbel's drama "The Nibelungs" is to be performed to mark the 100th anniversary of the Meister company, which has specialised in the more lucrative poisonous gases rather than soap production. The roles are divided up between the Meister family and the management. There is a Franconian counterpart for every Hebbel character, and the closer the premiere gets, the more the theatre of the stage mixes with that of life: company boss Meister wants to get rid of his notoriously unfaithful wife so that he can marry his mistress. Mrs Meister's reaction to this intrigue is suitably unscrupulous...

Remarks: In Franconian dialect.