Fragment 11 | Snowy night!

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by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Fragment 11

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Schneeige Nacht!
Ihr dunklen Schläfer
Unter der Brücke
Von zerbrochener Stirne
Tropft kristallner Schweiß euch

Text Authorship:

by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914), "Fragment 11" [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 Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Fragment 11", 1993 [tenor and piano], from Trakl-Lieder I, no. 8, Mainz, Schott [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Fragment 11", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Fragment 11", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2012-03-05
Line count: 5
Word count: 15

Fragment 11

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Snowy night!
You dark sleepers
beneath the bridge
from your broken brow
crystal sweat is dripping.

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914), "Fragment 11"
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This text was added to the website: 2016-06-20
Line count: 5
Word count: 16