Horst Günter (1913-2013) was a German baritone, active in opera, concert repertory and teaching. He sang widely in German-language repertory and became associated with mid-century stage and broadcast performance.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Weill’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny with Lotte Lenya and Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg.

Günter’s work here belongs to Weill’s sharp-edged theatre, where words, rhythm and character have to carry with almost cabaret precision.

His page is justified by secure identity and repertory context. Günter helps give Mahagonny its hard theatrical outline.