Kurt Honolka (27 September 1913 – 7 October 1988) was a German musicologist, journalist, and music and theatre critic.
He is known as a translator of the librettos of Czech operas into German, such as Smetana's Dalibor and Janáček's Osud.
[4] Honolka was a music critic for the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and editor of the Feuilleton section from 1949 to 1963.
[1][3] He also worked as a musicologist and translated several librettos of operas to German, especially those by Czech composers.
[3] He tried to revive forgotten works by notable composers by using new, more dramatic texts, for example Weber's Euryanthe and Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella.