LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,139)
  • Text Authors (19,552)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945)

Mein Wanderlied
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Zwölf Morgenhellen weit
Verschallt der Geist der Mitternacht,
Und meine Lippen haben ausgedacht
In stolzer Linie mit der Ewigkeit.

Torabwärts schreitet das Verflossene,
Indes sich meine Seele in dem Glanz der Lösung bricht,
Ihr tausendheißes, weißes Licht
Scheint mir voran ins Ungegossene.

Und ich wachse über all Erinnern weit –
So ferne Musik – und zwischen Kampf und Frieden
Steigen meine Blicke, Pyramiden,
Und sind die Ziele hinter aller Zeit.

Confirmed with Else Lasker-Schüler, Gesammelte Gedichte, Leipzig, Verlag der Weißen Bücher, 1917, page 64.


Text Authorship:

  • by Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945), "Mein Wanderlied", appears in Der siebente Tag, appears in Meine Wunder, first published 1905 [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 Ulrich Küchl (b. 1943), "Mein Wanderlied", op. 3 no. 5 (1983), first performed 1983 [ medium voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder einer bewegten Seele für mittlere Stimme und Klavier, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Peter-Michael Riehm (1947 - 2007), "Mein Wanderlied", 1974-1976 [ soprano and piano ], from Sieben Lieder »Es ist ein Weinen in der Welt« für Sopran und Klavier, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sybil Westendorp (1910 - 1999), "Mein Wanderlied", 1981 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Karl Bellenberg [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2022-05-30
Line count: 12
Word count: 70

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris