Hans Werner Henze, Ingeborg Bachmann: „Der Prinz von Homburg”. Operowa adaptacja dzieła Kleista
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2012
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM w Poznaniu
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Hans Werner Henze, Ingeborg Bachmann: Der Prinz von Homburg. Operatic adaptation of Kleist’s drama
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The article aims at showing how complex can be the relationship between literary prototype and
operatic work. It analyses the adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist’s drama by two outstanding postwar
artists: the Austrian author Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) and the German composer Hans
Werner Henze (1926–2012). They not only adjust the dramatic text to the needs of the operatic
medium. They also, very much in the spirit of their times (1958), try to rethink, to “save” as they
put it, a work of art misused by the ideology of Wilhelminism and the Third Reich. In their interpretation
they turn their back on military and political content of the drama, focus their attention
on the person of the Prince, glorifying him as a dreamer and outsider.
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Przestrzenie Teorii, nr 18, 2012, str. 41-50
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978-83-232-2479-2