Sir Peter Jonas, Steffen Huck —
DIE ZEIT, 2020
Wotan needs a free hero. The social sciences need free will.
Ilias Chrissochoidis, Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, Wieland Müller —
Music & Letters, 2014
Tannhäuser’s outburst is calculated. By derailing the contest he forces the only path to redemption. Apparent frenzy masks design.
Steffen Huck —
The Spectator, 2013
A boundary crossed. Love traded for power. Alberich's bargain resurfaces in Albuquerque.
Steffen Huck —
The Spectator, 2012
The Ring opens in debt. Valhalla leveraged, Alberich capitalized, contagion imminent. A financial crisis precedes the apocalypse.
Steffen Huck —
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2012
Another take on the financial crisis in the Ring. This time in German.
Ilias Chrissochoidis, Steffen Huck —
Cambridge Opera Journal, 2011
Elsa does not ask out of emotional weakness. She must believe in Lohengrin’s belief in her innocence. The tragedy is epistemological.
Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, Wieland Müller —
Economics Letters, 2007
Absolution cannot be certain and cannot be impossible. Optimal deterrence is stochastic. The miracle enforces it.