Advancement | Many a person clambering up the silly ladder of achievement

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by Ernst Kühlbrandt (1857 - 1933)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Aufstieg

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Manchen auf der Eselsleiter
stimmt sein Aufstieg dann erst heiter,
wenn er seinem Hintermann
auf die Finger treten kann.

Confirmed with Ernst Kühlbrandt, Der Weisheitszahn. Sinn-Gedichte, herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Heinz Stanescu, Bukarest: Jugendverlag, [1969], page 65

Text Authorship:

by Ernst Kühlbrandt (1857 - 1933), "Aufstieg", appears in Kurzschlüsse 1919 [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 Carl Knopf (1893 - 1979), "Aufstieg" [voice and piano], in the collection Lieder siebenbürgischer Komponisten, Book II [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , title 1: "Advancement", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Advancement

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Many a person clambering up the silly ladder of achievement
only finds the climb enjoyable
when he can step on the fingers
of the person who comes after him.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Ernst Kühlbrandt (1857 - 1933), "Aufstieg", appears in Kurzschlüsse 1919
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This text was added to the website: 2017-05-04
Line count: 4
Word count: 29