New version (1956/57)
Original version (1934/35, see there)
after Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, by Hermann Scherchen, Wolfgang Petzet and Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Carl Orff zugeeignet [“dedicated Carl Orff”]

New version with overture (1939), interludes, musical dialogues, choric string instrumentation, dramaturgical interventions and alternative ending

Performance duration: ca. 85′

First performance: July 9, 1959, Mannheim (Conductor: Karl Fischer & Production: Joachim Klaiber)