Die Flut (opera)
Flut or Die Flut (German "the flood") may refer to: *Die Flut, 1937 poem by Moriz Seeler *''Die Flut'', a 1946 “radio opera” by Boris Blacher *"Die Flut", song by Joachim Witt Joachim Witt (born 22 February 1949) is a German rock musician and actor who has been active since 1977. During his prolific 50-year career, Witt has released 20 studio albums and a further 8 compilation and live albums as a solo artist. Early i ...

Moriz Seeler
Moriz Seeler (1 March 1896 – 18 August 1942) was a German poet, writer, film producer, and man of the theatre. Early life Moritz Seeler was born in the small, provincial town of Gryfice, Greifenberg in Pomerania, Germany (now Gryfice in northwestern Poland), to a Jewish family. He moved to Berlin at the age of 15. His first verses are said to have been published as early as 1917–1918; the first collection of poems, ''Dem Hirtenknaben'', was issued in Berlin in 1919; another one, entitled ''Die Flut'', was published in Vienna in 1937.Moriz Seeler, ''Die Flut: Gedichte'' (Vienna, Buchhandlung Richard Lányi, 1937). At some point, Seeler began using "Moriz," rather than his birth name of Moritz. Biography He is perhaps best known as the founding father of the Junge Bühne (‘Young Stage’), an avant‑garde matinee-theatre which came into being in Berlin in the spring of 1922. In 1927 he co‑authored the ''libretto'' to Friedrich Hollaender’s cabaret ''Bei uns um ...
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Boris Blacher
Boris Blacher (30 January 1975) was a German composer and librettist. Life Blacher was born when his parents (of German-Estonian and Russian backgrounds) were living within a Russian-speaking community in the Manchurian town of Niuzhuang () (hence the use of the Julian calendar on his birth record). He spent his first years in China and in the Asian parts of Russia, and in 1919, he eventually came to live in Harbin. In 1922 he went to Berlin where he began to study first architecture, mathematics, and then music at the Berlin Hochschule fuer Musik. He found work arranging popular and film music. Two years later, he turned to music and studied composition with Friedrich Koch. His career was interrupted by National Socialism. He was accused of writing degenerate music and lost his teaching post at the Dresden Conservatory. His career resumed after 1945, and he later became president of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and is today regarded as one of the most influential mus ...
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