Symposium: Parable and Reality.

The lectures were given by personalities from the academic world as well as freelance authors and performing artists. The events of the Henze project, which took place throughout the year in the 53 cities of the Ruhr region, thus were also theoretically illuminated and engrossed.

In 2013, the conference proceedings, expanded by numerous other contributions, were finally published under the title “Hans Werner Henze and his time”. The editors (who were also the organizers) concluded their foreword with the words: “Many roads lead to one of the most important composers after the Great War. It was not least the crimes committed during this war that made Henze an ethicist of responsibility, an accuser of the Restoration and a courageous homo politicus. The unity of ethos and artistry revealed in Henze's work is unique.”