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However inchoate and unrealistic their ultimate aims, the Greens have al ready left marks on the country. That Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann talks about saving dying German forests, that Social Democratic Leader Vogel now hedges on the missile issue, that the Free Democratic Party now champions the rights of foreign workers - all can be at tributed to the political stimulus of the Greens. More than its Catholic counter part, the Protestant Church has been moved to respond to the concerns of West German youths. The large-circulation press has been unable to ignore the pressures of the counterculture movement...
Significantly, Kohl has agreed to appoint Friedrich Zimmermann, 57, his Interior Minister. Zimmermann is a conservative long known for his anti-immigration and anti environmentalist views. His name was put forward for the job by Franz Josef Strauss, the abrasive head of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to the C.D.U.* The Interior Minister's appointment has already raised protests from a wide range of left-wing groups, including the Greens, the growing third force in West German politics, who recently won 8% of the vote in local elections in the industrial state of Hesse. A loose...
...obvious. Wozzeck too is about soldiers and their sordid love lives and has a heroine named Marie; like Die Soldaten, it is constructed in 15 self-contained, even aphoristic, scenes. Lulu-like Die Soldaten, a twelve-tone opera-similarly features a heroine who ends up a common prostitute. Zimmermann deliberately invoked the shade of his illustrious predecessor; the challenge he set himself was to improve upon the originals. That he failed is less a comment on his ability than a tribute to Berg's genius: Wozzeck (1922) epitomized 20th century alienation in its tale of a miserable soldier ground...
...Zimmermann's score is derived from a single twelve-note row containing all the musical intervals, but still has room for such disparate elements as Gregorian chant, Bach chorales and, during a dance number, an anachronistic rock band. Each of the scenes in the opera's four acts is organized according to a musical genre: chaconne, toccata, ricercar-another explicit resemblance to Wozzeck...
...What are the requirements for modern opera?" asked Zimmermann before his suicide in 1970. "The answer can be given in one sentence: Opera as total theater! In other words: architecture, sculpture, painting, musical theater, spoken theater, ballet, film, microphone, television, tape and sound techniques, electronic music, concrete music, circus, the musical and all forms of motion theater combine to form the phenomenon of pluralistic opera. In my Soldaten I have attempted to take decisive steps in this direction...