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Da ich die Bücher, nach der Grenze hetzend Den Freunden ließ, entrat ich des Gedichts, Doch führ ich meine [Rauchgefäße]1 mit, verletzend Des Flüchtlings dritte Regel: Habe nichts! Die Bücher sagen dem nicht viel, der [nun]2 Auf solche wartet, kommend ihn zu greifen. Das Ledersäcklein und die alten Pfeifen Vermögen fürder mehr für ihn zu tun.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Die Gedichte von Bertolt Brecht in einem Band, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1981 (Neunte Auflage 1997), page 820
1 Eisler: "Rauchgeräte"2 Eisler: "nur"
Text Authorship:
- by Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), "Die Pfeifen" [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 Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Auf der Flucht", 1942, from Hollywooder Liederbuch, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 58
As I left my books with my friends, while Rushing toward the border, I abandoned poetry. Yet I take my smoking [receptacles]1 with me, thereby Breaking the third rule of a refugee: Have nothing! The books are not much use to someone who [now]2 Waits for those coming to take him prisoner. The little leather pouch and the old pipes Can henceforth do more for him.
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View text without footnotesTranslated titles:
"Auf der Flucht" = "Fleeing"
"Die Pfeifen" = "The tobacco pipes"
2 Eisler: "only"
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), "Die Pfeifen"
This text was added to the website: 2010-10-11
Line count: 8
Word count: 68