Pierrot Lunaire
The painters Paul Klee, Federico García Lorca, Theodor Werner, Marc Chagall, Markus Lüpertz, and Fernando Botero have all produced a "Pierrot Lunaire" (in 1924, 1928, 1942, 1969, 1984, and 2007, respectively). The British writer Helen Stevenson published a Chinese-box-like, postmodern set of variations on Giraud's poems in her 1995 novel "Pierrot Lunaire", and Bruce LaBruce released his Canadian/German film "Pierrot Lunaire", a gender-bending interpretation of the Schoenberg cycle, in 2014. Pierrot Lunaire is also a familiar figure in postmodern popular art: like the American experimental/drone music artist John DeNizio, Brazilian, Italian, and Russian rock groups have called themselves Pierrot Lunaire. The Soft Machine, a British group, included the song "Thank You Pierrot Lunaire" in its 1969 album "Volume Two"; the Scottish musician Momus included the track "Pierrot Lunaire" in his 2003 album Oskar Tennis Champion; and the avant-pop star Björk, known for her interest in avant-garde music, performed Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" at the 1996 Verbier Festival with Kent Nagano conducting. In 2011, the French graphic novelist published the first volume of his projected trilogy, "Pierrot Lunaire", and in issue #676 of DC Comics, "Batman R.I.P.: Midnight in the House of Hurt" (2008), Batman acquired a new nemesis, who shadowed him—and plotted against Robin, the Boy Wonder—for ten more issues: his name was Pierrot Lunaire.