Iris ter Schiphorst understands her piece as an homage to the writer Inge Müller (1925 - 1966), whose poems were included in this work, and as a 'scientific-artistic examination of the intellectual climate of her life', especially of the Nazi era as well as her reception in the 1960s by Hannah Arendt, among others. The idea of abandoning the Lied as a constitutive unity of text and music and working with different text genres (including so-called folk songs) opened up the possibility for the com...