‘Sonnenanbetung’ (Sun worship) is a radio drama based on Michael Fahres’ sound recordings of the sun and script by the German writer Siegfried C.Matschke (in German). The text is highly politicized including numerous subjects ranging from Hitter’s politics to critic of the American consumer society.
1980 the text was translated in Dutch, and performed as music theatre work (director: Marcel Otten), with visuals (slide show made by Tom Klinkowstein) and three actors (Rezy Schumacher, Ben Lansink, Jacques Hendrikx), who were bondaged in tapes and who tried to escape. Premiered in the ‘Palais de Beaux Arts’, Bruxelles on October 17th, 1980.

This radio play deals with the theme ‘Sun’ in a concrete and associative way. Four aspects, informatively recited by a news reporter, form the thematic framework of the play: The sun at the Incas (Indian fairy tales), the sun at the time of National Socialism (German anecdotes), the sun in the Federal Republic of Germany (Republican short story), and finally, the sun in the Sahel desert (epilogue: Sahel).
In between are the prayers (four archaic invocations of the sun): Nivea, Pyromania, Blood incantation, Dreamt of America. These prayers are deliberately read by Dutch actors in the German language, to emphasize associatively through unusual intonation the language of the ‘primitive’.
The electronic sounds correspond to the exact telescope-measurements as described in the composition ‘Sunstructure‘.

The planned radio broadcast of Sonnenanbetung did not take place on December 8th, 1980 for unknown reasons. Probably sun worship was broadcasted a week later on December 14th 1980. However, nothing was reported in the program booklets. The question whether sun worship was not broadcasted as planned due to political reasons cannot be clearly answered afterwards. The radio play version of Sun Worship was also presented to the public on August 7th, 1992 at 10 am during the Sunwheel project in Lelystad.