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Both featured artists, Peter Ackermann and Hermann Waldenburg, were born in Hitler's time and both fill their current work with images of life and renewal amid ruined concrete. Waldenburg's aquatints reach back to the last, best representative of German painting, Paul Klee, with their draftsman-like environments and constant use of plant forms that seemingly grow out of pure geometry. Tilting up in exaggerated perspective, the box-like shapes from which Waldenburg's plants spring combine planes of rough shading to suggest concrete...
BUSCH-REISGINER. Graphic Works by Peter Ackermann and Hermann Waldenburg...
...Alban Berg could not find an opera house willing to produce Wozzeck. On Hermann Scherchen's suggestion, Berg produced a three-movement suite about Wozzeck's mistress, Marie. From 1924 (the first performance date) to the present, the opera has remained Berg's most popular work all because of the initial spark provided by the suite. The public must have acted on faith to hail Wozzeck on the strength of the suite excerpts: they contain only a fraction of the tragedy and sarcasm that pervades the opera. The last suite movement in particular loses nearly all its power...
Some of the most notorious Nazi war criminals have escaped justice because West German judges have permitted unconscionably long trial delays. That is the accusation made by Hermann Langbein, 60, an Austrian Jew who survived Auschwitz and is now secretary of the International Concentration Camp Committee, which documents and tries to secure punishment for Nazi crimes. In the committee's quarterly bulletin Langbein charges that West German judges have gone out of their way to accept defense excuses for postponement, often causing trials to be delayed for a decade or more. Items...
...Ogre himself, a huge, nearsighted man, is named Abel Tiffauges. He is one of those tiresome people who see mysterious significance in every little occurrence. He is variously a Parisian auto mechanic, a keeper of military carrier pigeons, a P.O.W. assistant to the chief forester at Hermann Goring's hunting preserve, and a youth scout for a Nazi eugenics program. Each of these jobs gives Tiffauges a chance to spread his mythic wings. As Abel, he recalls...