The making of El Cimarrón began in about 1986, with a conversation I had with Hans Magnus Enzensberger about the difficulties of writing political songs today that would go beyond the achievements of Eisler, Weill and Dessau in this field. It seemed to me that I might try to tackle the problem by writing a cycle with a variety of musical materials out of which perhaps something novel might emerge in a new and different context, almost by chance. Enzensberger told me of the recent publication of ...

• I Die Welt
• II Der Cimarrón
• III Die Sklaverei
• IV Die Flucht
• V Der Wald
• VI Die Geister
• VII Die falsche Freiheit
• VIII Die Frauen
• IX Die Maschinen
• X Die Pfarrer
• XI Der Aufstand
• XII Die Schlacht von Mal Tiempo
• XIII Der schlechte Sieg
• XIV Die Freundlichkeit
• XV Das Messer