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...host bearing in its midst the Holy Grail ... It pours out exquisite odors, like streams of gold." The opening scene of Wieland's production duly provided a blinding cobalt blue sky against which was ranged a semicircle of knights in dazzling silver mail. The oak tree where King Heinrich holds court was reduced to a circular cluster of painted branches hung high over the stage. The castle itself was a fringe of Gothic-stylized overhangs...
...production's cast was youthful and predominantly non-German: Hungary's Sandor Konya as Lohengrin, Austria's Leonie Rysanek as Elsa, France's Ernest Blanc as Telramund, the U.S.'s Astrid Varnay as Ortrud, and Keith Engen, who sang King Heinrich (wearing his 1944 University of California class ring). While the principals were vocally uninspired, the chorus was in splendid form-despite severe hardships. Wieland's staging demands that the male chorus remain frozen-and conscious-for 70 minutes in the first act. In last week's premiere, several members retreated giddily...
...tolerance of ex-Nazis, published a look-who's-talking report about Nazis in high places in East Germany, listing name, rank and party-card-number documentation. At least 28 of the 400 members of the East German lower house, the report showed, including Volkskammer Vice President Heinrich Homann, were once active members of the Nazi Party, and there are also two ex-Nazis in East Germany's as well as West Germany's Cabinet...
...Author Heinrich is at his best as he describes the last-ditch stand of decimated German regiments against Russian divisions led by a hundred tanks. Towns burn, civilians are blown to bits, whole battalions are destroyed as they try to carry out orders from an incompetent division adjutant. Over the ghastly scene the snowy Carpathians loom like symbols of nature's indifference. But Heinrich neither needs nor uses literary symbolism. With a spare, brutal directness of language, he is able to show how men fight and die, convey the pressing of a trigger, the spreading stain of blood...
...Willi Heinrich is a 37-year-old German novelist whose specialty is the look, smell and sound of military defeat. He came by his competence honestly and bitterly as an infantry soldier in a fearfully mauled German division that bit deep into Russia, withdrew its remnants in broken retreat. Five wounds, Heinrich's personal quota, do not necessarily make a war novelist, but his first book, The Cross of Iron (TIME, April 23, 1956), proved that no contemporary novelist was better than he at the grisly business of describing the meat grinder of infantry combat. Crack of Doom, another...