"Music can tell any story"

Highlights of the anniversary year

Dedication by Rainer Pöllmann on the 10th anniversary of Hans Werner Henze's death on 27 October 2022 on Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in german)

Here is an interview given by Hans Werner Henze during his first visit to Cuba on the occasion of the Cuban premiere of Das Floß der Medusa:

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Dirigent: Matthias Pintscher

Internationales Musikfest Hamburg
Regie: Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff,
Musik: Hans Werner Henze
Deutschland 1975

The illustrated book ‘A casa di Hans’, which was published in June 2021, is now also available in German. The translation was done by Julia Elisabeth Hartmann, and the introduction was written by Michael Kerstan, chairman of the Hans Werner Henze Foundation.

The Hans Werner Henze Foundation is delighted to welcome a new member to its Foundation Board: Christiane Albiez joined the team chaired by Peter Ruzicka in June 2025. During the last decade of Henze's life, she was a great supporter and close friend to him.

Die beiden hätten das Glamourpaar der Hochkultur werden können: Österreichs berühmte Dichterin Ingeborg Bachmann und der deutsche Komponist Hans Werner Henze, beide geboren 1926. Doch das Projekt ihrer Liebes- und Arbeitsgemeinschaft endete dramatisch, wie ein jüngst veröffentlichtes Tagebuch Bachmanns zeigt.

This collection publishes the contributions from the international symposium on Hans Werner Henze, which took place in Detmold in December 2022, bringing together current contributions to Henze research with a wide variety of focal points, such as film music, gender studies and music analysis.