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...grade-school teacher in the Westphalian city of Bielefeld, Henze played the piano at five, took ballet lessons at six. Drafted into the Wehrmacht at 18, he continued his musical education at Heidelberg and Paris, soon decided that "old-style music sounds pale and insufficient." He spent the next 15 years rattling off dozens of chamber works, symphonies, ballets and operas that earned him a name as a one-man revival of German music...
...Heidelberg, West Germany...
After Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, 77, is the ranking German existentialist. Unlike Heidegger, who flirted briefly with the Nazis, Jaspers maintained a quiet but obstinate dissent. Ticketed for a concentration camp in 1945, he and his wife were saved by the U.S. Army's capture of Heidelberg. Though he tends to view Christianity less in orthodox terms than as a body of myth and symbols, Jaspers is a member of the Evangelical Church, and in 1946, in his book The Question of German Guilt, he bade Germans cross-examine their consciences on the war-guilt issue. Outspokenly independent...
Africans & Astronomers. Michigan's Hope College, long a school for students of Dutch origin, now has a summer branch in Vienna. Ohio's Heidelberg College sends 15 to 20 juniors each year to its namesake university in Germany. At Ohio's Western College for Women, launched originally as a "western" Mt. Holyoke College, students focus each year on a different area of the world, spend the summer touring it. Western also specializes in Afro-Asian students, currently has the first Sudanese woman to study...
...tradition of the congresses used to be a militant witness against Protestantism, but the mood of last week's meeting was newly irenic. Evangelical Theologian Edmund Schlink of Heidelberg was invited to address one of the numerous study groups on "Ritual as Understood by Protestant Theology" and was enthusiastically applauded. Participants attended Mass in more than 100 churches, and in the Byzantine, Armenian, Maronite and Ethiopian rites as well as the Roman. In specially designated churches, confessions were heard in 17 languages...