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"Du gabst mir immer wieder Dein Herz und deine Lieder, Ich nahm sie sorglos hin. Nun muß ich dich betrüben: Ich [darf]1 dich [nicht mehr]2 lieben, Weil ich nicht dein mehr bin." "Und liebst du einen andern, [Will]3 ich ins Weite wandern, Mir wird so enge hier. Wie schmerzlich blüht der Flieder! Mein Herz und meine Lieder, [Ich lasse sie bei dir]4."
About the headline (FAQ)
View text without footnotesConfirmed with Klabund Gesammelte Gedichte Lyrik Balladen Chansons, Wien: Phaidon-Verlag, 1930, page 231.
1 Mengelberg: "kann"2 Orff: "nimmer"
3 Mengelberg: "Muß"
4 Orff: "Die lasse ich bei dir"
Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928), as Jucundus Fröhlich Klabund, "Zwiegespräch", appears in Siebenter Kreis: Der Leierkastenmann [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 Dorothea Hofmann (b. 1961), "Mein Herz", 2010, first performed 2011 [ tenor and piano ], from »Ich bin erwacht«, 4 Liebeslieder nach Gedichten von Klabund, no. 2, note: this may be the wrong poem for this song [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Kurt) Rudolf Mengelberg (1892 - 1959), "Zwiegespräch", op. 6 no. 1, published 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder des Abschieds, no. 1, Wien, Leipzig: Universal-Edition [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Carl Orff (1895 - 1982), "Zwiegespräch", 1919 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder und Gesänge nach Texten von Klabund, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (Richard Gustav) Heinz Tiessen (1887 - 1971), "Zwiegespräch", op. 53 no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Dialogue", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 67
"Again and again you gave me Your heart and your songs, I accepted them unheedingly. Now I must grieve you: [I am no longer allowed to love you]1, Because I am no longer yours." "And if you love another, I [shall]2 wander out into the wide world, I feel so confined here. How painfully the lilac blooms! My heart and my songs, [I leave them behind with you]3."
About the headline (FAQ)
View text without footnotesTranslations of titles:
"Mein Herz" = "My heart"
"Zwiegespräch" = "Dialogue"
2 Mengelberg: "must"
3 Orff: "Those I leave behind with you"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2014 by Sharon Krebs, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928), as Jucundus Fröhlich Klabund, "Zwiegespräch", appears in Siebenter Kreis: Der Leierkastenmann
This text was added to the website: 2014-10-27
Line count: 12
Word count: 73