Black and white, emotions and rationality, drives and morality – when the history of music becomes the stage for conflicts between opposites, the stakes are always high. In Wagner's "Lohengrin", it is the heathen and Christian worlds which clash; in the great cosmological works, primitive and archaic forces come to the fore. In 1920, Rudi Stephan composed his opera "The First Humans": A work of musical theater about the psychological abysses of a world without rules, out of which emerge the first forms of morality and consensus. Beginning here, the new takt1 theme takes a look at big beginnings and the musical big bang.