Waters teeming with fish! Forests of beautiful trees!

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by Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Frühling

(Sung text for setting by H. Eisler)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Fischreiche Wässer! Schönbäumige Wälder!
Birken- und Beerenduft!
Vieltöniger Wind, durchschaukelt eine Luft
So mild, als stünden jene eisern Milchbehälter
Die dort vom weißen Gute rollen, offen!
Geruch und Ton und Bild und Sinn verschwimmt.
Der Flüchtling sitzt im Erlengrund und nimmt
Sein schwier'ges Handwerk wieder auf: das Hoffen.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanza 1 of the original text.

Composition:

Hanns Eisler

Hollywooder Liederbuch

Text Authorship:

by Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), "Finnische Landschaft", appears in Steffinische Sammlung

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 98

Spring

(Sung text translation for setting by H. Eisler)

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Waters teeming with fish! Forests of beautiful trees!
The scent of birches and berries!
Wind of many sounds, rocking through an air
So mild, as if yonder iron milk canisters
That are rolling from the white estate, were standing open!
Scent and sound and image and meaning become blurred.
The refugee sits in the alder-grove and takes up
Again his difficult craft: Hoping.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanza 1 of the original text.

Translated titles:
"Finnische Landschaft" = "Finnish countryside"
"Frühling" = "Spring"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), "Finnische Landschaft", appears in Steffinische Sammlung
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This text was added to the website: 2016-09-16
Line count: 14
Word count: 121