LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,102)
  • Text Authors (19,442)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Vereinsamt
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG ENG FRE
Die Krähen schrein 
Und ziehen schwirren Flugs zur Stadt: 
Bald wird es schnein. - 
Wohl dem, der jetzt noch - Heimat hat! 

Nun stehst du starr,
Schaust rückwärts, ach! wie lange schon!
Was bist du Narr
Vor Winters in die Welt entflohn?

Die Welt - ein Tor
Zu tausend Wüsten stumm und kalt!
Wer das verlor,
Was du verlorst, macht nirgends halt.

Nun stehst du bleich,
Zur Winter-Wanderschaft verflucht,
Dem Rauche gleich,
Der stets nach kältern Himmeln sucht.

Flieg, Vogel, schnarr
Dein Lied im Wüstenvogel-Ton!
Versteck, du Narr,
Dein blutend Herz in Eis und Hohn!

Die Krähen schrein
Und ziehen schwirren Flugs zur Stadt:
Bald wird es schnein, -
Weh dem, der keine Heimat hat!

Text Authorship:

  • by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "Vereinsamt", written 1884 [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 Ernst Baeker (1866 - 1944), "Vereinsamt", op. 9 (Sieben Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Verlag Kreisende Ringe [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Dorothee Fischer (1894 - 1981), "Vereinsamt" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Vereinsamt", op. 320 (Fünf Lieder nach Friedrich Nietzsche) no. 4 (2021) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Dora Pejačević (1885 - 1923), "Vereinsamt", op. 53 (Drei Gesänge) no. 2 (1920), published 1919/20 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Rudi Spring (b. 1962), "Vereinsamt", op. 92 no. 6 (2013) [ baritone and piano ], from Wünschelrute. Liederzyklus für Bariton und Klavier , no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ernest Vietor (flourished 1905-1930), "Vereinsamt", op. 13 no. 5 (1935-6) [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Lonely", copyright ©
  • ENG English [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "Lone", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Solitaire", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 111

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris