Karin Lenz

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Work data
Original title: Karin Lenz
Original language: German
Music: Günter Kochan
Libretto : Erik Neutsch
Premiere: 2nd October 1971
Place of premiere: Berlin
Playing time: about 90 minutes

Karin Lenz is the only opera by the composer Günter Kochan based on a libretto by the writer Erik Neutsch . The plot is based on an incident from everyday life in the GDR .

Günter Kochan composed it as a number opera in ten pictures.

action

While fleeing from the Red Army and influenced by Goebbel's hate speech , the young mother Karin Lenz shoots her child. After the Second World War she worked in an orphanage . Due to a deep sense of guilt, she faces the GDR judiciary in the 1960s.

premiere

The opera was in 1971 at the German State Opera with the participation of Heinz Fricke (direction), Erhard Fischer (direction), Willi Sitte and Dieter Rex (set design). The soprano Gisela Schröter took on the role of Karin Lenz .

literature

  • Günter Kochan . In: Sigrid Neef (with Hermann Neef ): German opera in the 20th century. GDR 1949–1989 . Lang, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-86032-011-4 , pp. 257-260.
  • Günter Kochan: "Karin Lenz" - number opera with carefully composed images and interludes . In: Heike Sauer: Dream - Reality - Utopia. German music theater 1961–1971 as a mirror of political and social aspects of its time . Waxmann, Münster, New York 1994, ISBN 3-89325-235-5 , p. 131 ff. (= Also dissertation, University of Münster, 1993).