Word: heinrichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christmas concerts are always festive, but they become especially joyful when they contain real Christmas music. Heinrich Schutz' Christmas Story is nearly a self-contained service of lessons and carols, alternating between the Evangelist's narration and responses in the form of choruses and arias. The choruses are particularly colorful; they use many different combinations of voices (there is even one for four basses...
German culture, too, is vital, promising and socially oriented. While taking delight in piercing the pretensions of German materialism, Günter Grass (The Tin Drum), Heinrich Böll (The Clown) and Uwe Johnson (Speculations About Jakob) have dealt perhaps more effectively than any other writers with the peculiar poignancy of the human condition in the postwar world. Karlheinz Stockhausen and Hans Werner Henze have emerged as composers of worldwide status, and a younger group of West Berliners is experimenting with "post-pop realism." Just about every West German town of any size has opera and repertory theater. And for those...
Will little Oedipus escape from his complex? The answer is a real skirt-hanger, suggesting every known perversion, until the happy ending when boy rinds a girl like Mom. The Cocteau-film atmosphere of high camp is sustained by skilled faux-simple prose, which at times evokes Heinrich Mann, at other times less skilled practitioners of psychologically sophisticated pornophilia...
...attend a meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees, formed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to consider the problem of Nazi Germany's persecuted Jews. Nevertheless, Hitler was represented, if unofficially, at the conference in Evian-les-Bains, a French spa near the Swiss border. His emissary was Dr. Heinrich von Neumann, a Viennese Jew, who arrived on a strange and cold-blooded mission: to offer for sale, at $250 a head, 40,000 Austrian Jews...
...episode, scarcely enough to sustain a novel. Habe's book is upholstered with plot digressions, epigrams ("the everlasting exchange of deceptions which we call social life"), philosophizing and methodical character analyses beneath which the characters themselves threaten to disappear. The figure of Habe's protagonist, Heinrich von Benda, is so overburdened with the mantle of tragedy that his death, of a heart attack in the train bearing him back to occupied Vienna, comes as a kind of comic relief...