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by Matthias Claudius (1740 - 1815)

Weit von meinem Vaterlande
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Weit von meinem Vaterlande
  Muß ich hier verschmachten und vergehn,
Ohne Trost, in Müh und Schande;
  Oh die weißen Männer! klug und schön!
Und ich hab' den Männern ohn' Erbarmen 
  Nichts gethan.
Du im Himmel! hilf mir armen 
  Schwarzen Mann!1

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   J. Zumsteeg 

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Confirmed with Matthias Claudius, Werke, erster Band, sechste Auflage, [no editor named], Hamburg: Friedrich Perthes, 1841, page 8. Appears in Sämmtliche Werke des Wandsbecker Bothen, Erster und Zweiter Theil, Wandsbeck, 1774.

1 Zumsteeg adds: "Denn ich hab den Männern ohn' Erbarmen/ Nichts gethan." (see lines 5 and 6)

Text Authorship:

  • by Matthias Claudius (1740 - 1815), "Der Schwarze in der Zuckerplantage" [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 Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Der Schwarze in der Zuckerplantage", op. 52 no. 13 (1937) [ voice and piano ], from Wandsbecker Liederbuch: Liederfolge nach Gedichten von Matthias Claudius, no. 13, Wien: Universal Edition [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1760 - 1802), "Mohrenlied", published 1803, from Kleine Balladen und Lieder, Heft V, no. 39 [sung text checked 1 time]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 40

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