The mongers and the movers and shakers

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by Alfred Kerr (1867 - 1948)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Die Händler und die Macher

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Die Händler und die Macher
Sind mit Profit und Schacher
Des "HELDEN" Widersacher.
Der lässt ein Wort erklingen
Wie Götz von Berlichingen.

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Text Authorship:

by Alfred Kerr (1867 - 1948), no title [author's text not yet checked 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 Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Die Händler und die Macher", op. 66 no. 11 (1918), from Krämerspiegel, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , no title, copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Les marchands et les fabricants", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Matthias Fletzberger

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 5
Word count: 22

The mongers and the movers and shakers

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

The mongers and the movers and shakers,
With [their concerns about] profit and haggling,
Are the adversaries of the HERO.
He lets a word ring out
Like Götz von Berlichingen.

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Translator's notes:
Line 3: The word "Helden" refers to Richard Strauss’s tone poem Ein Heldenleben.
Line 4: The "word" is actually a phrase (see following footnote).
Line 5: A play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in which the eponymous hero sends a rude message to a military captain. In the 1771 version, the infamous words are represented by dashes. In the 1773 version, they are written out ("er kann mich im Arsch lecken", rendered more mildly in English as "he can kiss my ass.")

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Alfred Kerr (1867 - 1948), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2014-09-13
Line count: 5
Word count: 30