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by Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)

Fischreiche Wässer! Schönbäumige Wälder!
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Fischreiche Wässer! Schönbäumige Wälder!
Birken- und Beerenduft!
Vieltöniger Wind, [durchschaukelnd]1 eine Luft
So mild, als stünden jene eisern Milchbehälter
Die dort vom weißen Gute rollen, offen!
Geruch und Ton und Bild und Sinn verschwimmt.
Der Flüchtling sitzt im Erlengrund und nimmt
Sein schwier'ges Handwerk wieder auf: das Hoffen.
 
Er achtet gut der schöngehäuften Ähre
Und starker Kreatur, die sich zum Wasser neigt
Doch derer auch, die Korn und Milch nicht nährt.
Er fragt die Fähre, die mit Stämmen fährt:
Ist dies das Holz, ohn das kein Holzbein wäre?
Und sieht ein Volk, das in zwei Sprachen schweigt.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   H. Eisler 

H. Eisler sets stanza 1

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Confirmed with Die Gedichte von Bertolt Brecht in einem Band, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1981 (Neunte Auflage 1997), page 822

1 Eisler: "durchschaukelt"

Text Authorship:

  • by Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), "Finnische Landschaft", appears in Steffinische Sammlung [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Frühling", 1942, stanza 1, from Hollywooder Liederbuch, no. 5 [sung text checked 2 times]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 98

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