Kurt Honolka was a German musicologist, journalist, and music and theatre critic.
10 Facts About Kurt Honolka
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Kurt Honolka is known as a translator of the librettos of Czech operas into German, such as Smetana's Dalibor and Janacek's Osud.
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Kurt Honolka became a member of the Nazi Party in 1939.
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Kurt Honolka published in the daily newspapers Prager Tagblatt and Der neue Tag.
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Kurt Honolka was a music critic for the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and editor of the Feuilleton section from 1949 to 1963.
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Kurt Honolka worked as a musicologist and translated several librettos of operas to German, especially those by Czech composers.
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Kurt Honolka tried to revive forgotten works by notable composers by using new, more dramatic texts, for example Weber's Euryanthe and Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella.
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Kurt Honolka received the Order of Merit of Baden-Wurttemberg in 1980.
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Kurt Honolka was awarded the Schubart-Literaturpreis of the city of Aalen in 1986.
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Publications by Kurt Honolka are held by the German National Library, including:.