Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specific example of aesthetic conservatism, Kaiser said, the most interesting theatrical events in Central Europe last year were two productions in West Berlin of Prinz Friedrich von Hamburg by Heinrich von Kleist (17771811), a five-act romantic drama of heroism in battle and requited love. "Here we have a play that less than five years ago was rejected by the radical left. Suddenly that same play starts to fascinate young and old alike-so much so that it results in the most interesting theatrical evenings of the season...
Last week in Germany such a work appeared. The orchestra pit of the Hamburg State Opera was empty, and up on the stage strode the weirdest bunch of non-human heavies since Wagner peopled his Ring cycle with gnomes, mermaids, dragons and bears. Five 21-ft. chrome-and-steel towers reeled in patterns that owed less to choreography than to the movement of armored tank columns. They were directed from backstage by electronic remote control, and were adorned with mirrors (20 to a tower) that caught the sunburst of spots, strobes and color projectors that beamed down upon them...
Could this be opera? Or even anti-opera? State Opera Director Rolf Liebermann clearly thought it belonged in an opera house; he commissioned the piece, called Kyldex 1, as the 23rd and final new work to open under his imprimatur at Hamburg (he now moves to the Paris Opera). So did the man who created Kyldex, Parisian Kinetic Artist Nicolas Schöffer, 60, who spoke of his audiovisual creation as "a new step on the road toward communication and the socialization...
...find out where the girls are, men visiting unfamiliar cities generally consult cab drivers, hotel bellboys or friendly waiters. Now, because of an enterprising German printer, visitors to Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich are spared that embarrassment. For about $1.80, they can buy a "city map for men" that shows where to locate streetwalkers, transvestites, dance halls, singles bars, homosexual joints and other attractions. What if a foreigner does not read German? No matter. Drawings, unmistakable in meaning and identifying each diversion, are appropriately placed on the map: a saucy girl clad only in G string and stockings always...
...Zeit, a liberal Hamburg weekly: "Nixon's bombing war taxes the faith of his allies." It is "nothing but terror and torture; torture with a method in order to make the North Vietnamese pliable. The bombs fall on military targets, but they also hit hospitals and schools, women and children...Even allies must call this a crime against humanity...The American credibility has been shattered...