Immer wieder wird er Mensch geboren, spricht zu frommen, spricht zu tauben Ohren, kommt uns nah und geht uns neu verloren. Immer wieder muss er einsam ragen, aller Brüder Not und Sehnsucht tragen, immer wird er neu ans Kreuz geschlagen. Immer wieder will sich Gott verkünden, will das Himmlische ins Tal der Sünden, will ins Fleisch der Geist, der ewige, münden. Immer wieder, auch in diesen Tagen, ist der Heiland unterwegs zu segnen, unseren Ängsten, Tränen, Fragen, Klagen mit dem stillen Blicke zu begegnen, den wir doch nicht zu erwidern wagen, weil nur Kinderaugen ihn ertragen.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 365.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Der Heiland", written 1940 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Der Heiland", op. 33 no. 3 [ high voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder für hohe Stimme nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans Vollenweider (1918 - 1993), "Der Heiland - Passions-Kantate nach einem Text von Hermann Hesse" [ alto or baritone and organ ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The Saviour", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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