Среди врагов | Мой черёд... На месте лобном

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Translation by Lev L'vovich Kobylinsky (1889 - 1947), as Ellis

Unter Feinden

Language: German (Deutsch)

Dort der Galgen, hier die Stricke
und des Henkers roter Bart,
Volk herum und giftge Blicke -
Nichts ist neu dran meiner Art!
Kenne dies aus hundert Gängen,
schreis euch lachend ins Gesicht:
"Unnütz, unnütz, mich zu hängen!
Sterben? Sterben kann ich nicht!"

Bettler ihr! Denn euch zum Neide
ward mir, was ihr - nie erwerbt:
zwar ich leide, zwar ich leide -
aber ihr - ihr sterbt, ihr sterbt!
Auch nach hundert Todesgängen
bin ich Atem, Dunst und Licht -
"Unnütz, unnütz, mich zu hängen!
Sterben? Sterben kann ich nicht!"

Text Authorship:

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "Unter Feinden" [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 Maria Bach (1896 - 1978), "Unter Feinden", 1965 [ baritone and piano ], Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek [sung text not yet checked]
by Michael Brough (b. 1960), "Unter Feinden", op. 15 (24 Lieder) no. 15 (>>2000) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Unter Feinden", 1939 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Lev L'vovich Kobylinsky (1889 - 1947) ; composed by Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev.
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Line count: 16
Word count: 86

Среди врагов

Language: Russian (Русский) after the German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Мой черёд... На месте лобном
Петля страшная висит,
Молча в нетерпеньи злобном
Вкруг толпа врагов стоит;
Молча, с бородою красной,
Встал палач передо мной.
Но смеётся разум мой,
,,Всё, я знаю, всё напрасно!``

Я смеюсь, в лицо врагу
Я кричу: ,,Я жил, страдая,
Непрестанно умирая,
Умереть я не могу!
Сотни раз живой скелет,
Жалкий червь во тьме могилы.
Вновь я жизнь и дух и свет,
И дыханье новой силы!``

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Text Authorship:

by Lev L'vovich Kobylinsky (1889 - 1947), as Ellis [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "Unter Feinden"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915), "Среди врагов", op. 26 no. 10 (1908), published 1909 [ voice and piano ], from 10 Стихотворений из сборника Эллисъ «Иммортели» (10 Stikhotvorenij iz sbornika Ellis 'Immorteli') = 10 Poems from Ellis's Immortelles, no. 10, Berlin : Russischer Musikverlag [sung text checked 1 time]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-03
Line count: 16
Word count: 69