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6 unusual facts about Gaston Salvatore


Compases para preguntas ensimismadas

The title is taken from lines by the poet Gaston Salvatore, means literally metres for questions absorbed in self-contemplation.

Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer

Described as a "show for 17 performers", it is a setting of a libretto by the Chilean poet Gaston Salvatore, who had been prominent in the student disturbances of 1968 in Berlin.

Gaston Salvatore

In 1967, he and Rudi Dutschke translated Che Guevara's "Message to the Tricontinental" into German, for which they wrote an introduction.

Among other things, he is known for his collaborations with Hans Werner Henze, including Compases para preguntas ensimismadas and Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Together with Gaston Salvatore, Enzensberger was the founder of the monthly TransAtlantik.

Staatstheater Darmstadt

The Großes Haus was opened on 6 October 1972 with Beethoven's Fidelio, the Kleines Haus a day later with Gaston Salvatore's Büchners Tod.



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