The girls from Viterbo

Günter Eich's "The Girls from Viterbo" is one of the timeless radio plays of the 1950s. A seventeen-year-old Jewish girl, hidden in a Berlin apartment, and her grandfather fantasize themselves into the illustrated story of a girls' school class lost in the Roman catacombs, in order to become aware of themselves, their precarious situation, and their existence before God: people who are trapped. "That everything written approaches theology," Eich had demanded - this text fulfills that demand.