Ingeborg Bachmann wrote "Die Zikaden" in 1955, when she was just 29 years old. It was her first radio play for the NWDR in Hamburg. The music was composed by Hans Werner Henze.

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

Michael Struck-Schloen in conversation with Prof. Dr. Antje Tumat, Foundation council of the Hans Werner Henze Foundation

wocomoMUSIC releases the documentary part of the 2002 DVD "Memoirs of an Outsider" on Youtube. The composer portrait was produced by Dennis Marks for RM Associates in collaboration with Hessischer Rundfunk. The original DVD release also included a LIVE recording of the "Requiem" performed by Ensemble Modern under the direction of Ingo Metzmacher.

Hans Werner Henze: "I don't often listen to my earlier stuff. But there comes a moment when you ask yourself: Did I really do that? Was I that great?"

Dr. Barbara Haas conducted an interview with Hans Werner Henze in his villa "La Leprara", Marino, at the end of March 2011. (SR 2, July 5, 2011)

As part of the Ruhrtriennale 2010, Hans Werner Henze's opera "Gisela" was premiered in a spectacular production in the Zeche Zweckel machine hall in Gladbeck.

Eberhard von Lewinski in conversation with Hans Werner Henze

arte Metropolis, 13.07.1996: Presentation of the autobiography "Reiselieder mit böhmischen Quinten" in Frankfurt, Hotel Hessischer Hof 1996

The new opera "The Young Lord" by Hans Werner Henze. A report on an opera in two productions, in two interpretations. Comparison of the world premiere in Berlin and the production in Stuttgart. (Source: swr)