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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Sie ist nur durch mein Zimmer gegangen
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  FRE
Sie ist nur durch mein Zimmer gegangen
und hat mir [nur ihr Schicksal]1 erzählt,
und ich hab' sie mit Trost gequält
und saß und starb fast vor Verlangen.

Sie hat geträumt von meinen Händen:
sie aß von ihres Mannes Brot,
da kam ich an und drückte sie tot,
sie hielt ganz still. Wie wird das enden --

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Zemlinsky 

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Confirmed with Richard Dehmel, Weib und Welt, Verlag von Schuster u. Loeffler, Berlin, 1896, page 36.

1 Zemlinsky: "scheu von Träumen"

Text Authorship:

  • by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Drama", appears in Weib und Welt, first published 1896 [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 Alexander Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942), "Vorspiel", 1907, from Fünf lieder auf Texte von Richard Dehmel, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Peter Donderwinkel

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 57

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