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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.
H. Eisler sets stanza 1
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View original text (without footnotes)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
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 98
Waters teeming with fish! Forests of beautiful trees! The scent of birches and berries! Wind of many sounds, [rocking]1 through an air So mild, as if yonder iron milk canisters That are rolling from the white estate, were standing open! Scent and sound and image and meaning become blurred. The refugee sits in the alder-grove and takes up Again his difficult craft: Hoping. He marks well the beautifully piled-up seed heads And the strong creature that bends toward the water, But also those whom wheat and milk do not nourish. He asks the ferry boat that passes with logs: Is this the wood without which there would be no peg-leg? And sees a people who remain silent in two languages.
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View original text (without footnotes)Translated titles:
"Finnische Landschaft" = "Finnish countryside"
"Frühling" = "Spring"
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), "Finnische Landschaft", appears in Steffinische Sammlung
This text was added to the website: 2016-09-16
Line count: 14
Word count: 121