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GROUP PORTRAIT WITH LADY by HEINRICH...
Germany watchers have noted four waves of postwar preoccupations: money, gluttony, sex and travel. Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Heinrich Böll, 55, hopes there will be a fifth: "Relaxation and meditation. I've never met a relaxed German." Visiting the U.S., where his latest novel, Group Portrait with Lady, has just been published, Böll discussed the adversity of prosperity that exists throughout the West: "Having things we don't need can be a very bad thing." Böll would like to see the Germans become more like Americans. "I admire your selfcriticism, notably with Watergate...
...Life. British, German and Japanese export models are being offered at no extra cost despite the devaluation of the dollar. They include a posthumous Yukio Mishima novel (Runaway Horses), the second volume of a tetralogy that began with Spring Snow; Nobel Prizewinner Heinrich Böll's Group Portrait with Lady, a study of private lives in Nazi Germany; and two of the best books ever done by Iris Murdoch and Doris Lessing. In The Black Prince, Murdoch has happily abandoned those platoons of characters for a manageable menage a six (or so). The result is an engaging exercise...
...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...
BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Montezuma. An opera by Karl Heinrich Graun, an eighteenth-century Prussian, in its American premiere. The anti-imperialist libretto is by Frederick the Great. Tomorrow...