abstract:Schwergewicht, oder Die Ehre der Nation (Heavyweight [also a play on inertia] or The Glory of The Nation) is a burleske Operette with text and music by Ernst Krenek, his opus 55 and (with Der Diktator and Das geheime Königreich) the third of his 1928 one-acters. This satirical skit (as the composer was to call it in Horizons Circled) was provoked by the German ambassador's comment that sports heroes --and not artists-- were the true ambassadors of nations, and the title character Ochsenschwanz ("oxtail") is a reference to the boxer Max Schmeling.