[4] Antigone oder die Stadt finally premiered on 19 November 1991[4] at the Komische Oper Berlin, staged by Harry Kupfer and conducted by Jörg-Peter Weigle.

Haimon, his son, sees that being human would mean not to function ("Ein Mensch sein hieße: nicht zu funktionieren.").

[5] Katzer, a student of Hanns Eisler and a teacher at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, was a pioneer of electronic music in the GDR and took an interest in multi-media forms.

[5] A reviewer noted the contrast of scenes, such as a chorus of the Thebans followed by an introverted monologue of Antigone, later a lyric dialogue of Ismimi and Haimon followed by a drastic self-portrait of Kreon.

Other scenes include the sentencing of the unruly women, a "recitative and aria" of Teiresias with accordion and plucked bass.