Kurt Honolka

Kurt Honolka (27 September 1913 – 7 October 1988) was a German musicologist, journalist, and music and theatre critic. He is known as a translator of the librettos of Czech operas into German, such as Smetana's Dalibor and Janáček's Osud.

Career Born in Litoměřice, Bohemia, Honolka studied musicology and law at the German University in Prague, He published in the daily newspapers Prager Tagblatt

Honolka was a music critic for the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and editor of the Feuilleton section from 1949 to 1963. Droemer Knaur 1968, New edition 1979. Antonín Dvořák. Mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten Rowohlt 1974. (New edition 2002, ) Bedřich Smetana in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten Rowohlt, Reinbek 1978. Die großen Primadonnen. Vom Barock bis zur Gegenwart Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1961. (New edition 1982, ) Leoš Janáček. Sein Leben – sein Werk – seine Zeit. Belser, Stuttgart/ Zürich 1982. Papageno. Emanuel Schikaneder. Der große Theatermann der Mozart-Zeit. 1984. Schubart. Dichter und Musiker, Journalist und Rebell. Sein Leben, sein Werk. Stuttgart 1985, Hugo Wolf – sein Leben, sein Werk, seine Zeit. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1988.

Translations of opera librettos to German Zwei Witwen by Smetana Die verkaufte Braut by Smetana Dalibor by Smetana Die Teufelskäthe by Dvořák Osud by Janáček Les vêpres siciliennes by Verdi Così fan tutte by Mozart Die Hochzeit des Figaro by Mozart Idomeneo by Mozart Amahl und die nächtlichen Besucher by Menotti Hilfe, Hilfe, die Globolinks by Menotti

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