TITLE: Literature und Music: Woyzeck and Wozzeck. Alban Berg's Musical Adaptation of the Drama by Georg Büchner. SUMMARY: This thesis deals with a musical adaptation of the opera Wozzeck by the composer Alban Berg in the context of its literary model. The theoretical part offers an overview of the most important information and data about the authors and the origin of their works, based on the relevant sources. In the practical part, the principal emphasis is put on the libretto, specifically on formal and language similarities and differences detected in the text and their impact on the content and message of the work. Another focus is on musical language and its essential features, especially on the treatment of the voice, instrumentation and motives in the opera. The attention is also paid to the occurrence of autobiographical elements and critical reviews of the work. KEYWORDS: opera, drama, Woyzeck, Wozzeck, Alban Berg, Karl Emil Franzos, libretto, scenes, elision, alteration, literary model

Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, inwieweit die Parallelstellenmethode, die Friedrich Cerha in seinem weithin akzeptierten Versuch der Ergänzung des 3. Akts von Lulu anwandte, von Bergs eigener Verfahrensweise abweicht. Eine Analyse des Materials aus den Akten 1 und 2, das nach der »Spiegelachse« des Werkes (dem Interludium zwischen der ersten und zweiten Szene des zweiten Aktes) wieder aufgenommenen wird, zeigt, dass Bergs Eingriffe in die Instrumentation weit gravierender waren, als es sich Cerha gestattete. Gegenstand der Analysen sind Bergs Technik und Ästhetik der Klangvariation, insbesondere die Art und Weise, wie sich die sinkende Verlaufskurve des Dramas (nach dem Tod Dr. Schöns) in der klanglichen Gestaltung von Rückbezügen auf frühere Szenen widerspiegelt. Zum Schluss werden andere Instrumentierungsversuche des dritten Aktes seit Ablauf der Schutzfrist im Jahr 2005 zur Diskussion gestellt: die Versionen von Eberhard Kloke, David Robert Coleman und Johannes Harneit. / Berg left his second opera Lulu unfinished: most parts of the third act only exist as a reduced score (particell) with very sparse hints at orchestration. When Friedrich Cerha ventured to develop the particell into a playable version, he based his work on numerous musical correspondences between the existing material of the third act and passages of the first two acts of the opera. Whenever there was a relationship, he used the orchestration of the parallel passage. On a closer view it becomes obvious, that Cerhas procedure differs substantially from Berg’s own: The composer himself at most instances changed the orchestration, when he used musical recurrences, especially in the second half of the opera (after the interlude of the second act). Here the variants of the timbre often illustrate the demise of Lulu and her »corona«, of which the article analyses some significant examples. Finally some recent attempts to create alternatives to Cerhas orchestration, the versions of Eberhard Kloke, David Robert Coleman and Johannes Harneit, are described and discussed.

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