En de telles nuits les prisons s'ouvrent

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

In solchen Nächten gehn die Gefängnisse...

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: FRE

In solchen Nächten gehn die Gefängnisse auf.
Und durch die bösen Träume der Wächter
gehn mit leisem Gelächter
die Verächter ihrer Gewalt.
Wald! Sie kommen zu dir, um in dir zu schlafen,
mit ihren langen Strafen behangen.
  Wald!

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Confirmed with Das Buch der Bilder von Rainer Maria Rilke, Leipzig, Iminsel-Verlag, 1920, page 159.

Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Das Buch der Bilder, in Aus einer Sturmnacht: Acht Blätter mit einem Titelblatt, no. 2 [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 Franz Richter-Herf (1920 - 1989), "In solchen Nächten gehn die Gefängnisse auf", op. 1 no. 2 (1971) [ soli, chorus and orchestra ], from Aus einer Sturmnacht, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Edward Staempfli (1908 - 2002), "In solchen Nächten gehn die Gefängnisse auf", op. 10 no. 3 [ tenor and piano ], from Aus einer Sturmnacht: 9 Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

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FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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En de telles nuits les prisons s'ouvrent

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

En de telles nuits les prisons s'ouvrent.
Et parmi les mauvais rêves des gardiens,
passent avec un rire étouffé
les dénigreurs leur puissance.
Forêt ! Ils viennent vers toi, pour dormir en toi,
drapés de leurs longues peines.
    Forêt !

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Das Buch der Bilder, in Aus einer Sturmnacht: Acht Blätter mit einem Titelblatt, no. 2
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This text was added to the website: 2016-02-10
Line count: 7
Word count: 38