Sense cap | Treus la tapadora de l’olla

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by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Kopflos

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT

Man nehm den Deckel nur vom Topfe
Und sieh, wie froh der Dampf entweicht!
Wie lebt nach abgeschnittnem Kopfe
Das schwere Leben sich so leicht!
Kein Schnupfen mehr, kein Nasentropfen,
Kein Zahnweh und kein Augenbrand
Noch Stirnkatarrh noch Schläfenklopfen.
Es ist wie im Schlaraffenland.
Zwar gibt es ohne Kopf kein Denken,
Doch ist es darum nicht so schad,
Man kann mit Wein die Kehle tränken
Es ist das beste Gurgelbad,
Und ach, wie lebt es sich so stille:
Kein Wort, kein Lärm, kein grelles Licht!
Und nie mehr sucht man seine Brille
Und nie mehr macht man ein Gedicht.

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Text Authorship:

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Kopflos", written 1947 [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 Bertold Hummel (1925 - 2002), "Kopflos", op. 108 no. 1 (2002), published 2004 [ medium voice and piano ], from Kopflos – Liederzyklus nach skurrilen Gedichten von Hermann Hesse für mittlere Stimme und Klavier, no. 1, Schott Music [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Sense cap", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Martin Hummel

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Sense cap

Language: Catalan (Català) after the German (Deutsch)

Treus la tapadora de l’olla
i mira com el vapor s’escapa joiós!
Quan hom viu amb el cap tallat,
la feixuga vida esdevé tan fàcil!
Ja no hi ha refredats ni candeles al nas,
ni mal de queixal o picor als ulls,
ni tampoc sinusitis o palpitacions a les temples.
És com viure al país de xauxa.
Certament sense cap no es pot pensar
però això no és cap problema,
amb vi hom pot remullar la gola,
la millor manera de fer gàrgares,
i ai, com hom viu de tranquil:
cap paraula, cap soroll, cap llum enlluernadora!
I ja no cal cercar les ulleres
i mai més hom escriu un poema.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Kopflos", written 1947
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This text was added to the website: 2025-03-28
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