Words & music: Fanis. A live radio play

How is the world created? How do societies arise? These fundamental questions form the basis of the legends of the "Women of Fanis," which South Tyrolean author Anita Pichler explored many years ago together with legend researcher Ulrike Kindl. From fragments of centuries-old traditions, she has woven thirteen portraits of sometimes enigmatic female figures in whose hands the fate of Fanis lies. Fanis is a vast high alpine plateau in the Dolomites. It is there that the Ladins have projected their timeless myth. Author and actress Ursula Scheidle and Florian Kmet have made their way back to the mountains they themselves left many years ago, searching for traces of these sometimes very abstract images that form the basis of the stories from Fanis. In their live performance, the two bring the myth back to life. They allow language to interact with sound, thus expanding the characters' scope of action. (Florian Kmet)