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Thusnelda: Ha, dort kömt er mit Schweiß, mit [Römerblute]1, Mit dem Staube der Schlacht bedeckt! so schön war Hermann niemals! So hats ihm Nie von dem Auge geflammt! Kom! ich bebe vor Lust! reich mir den Adler Und das triefende Schwert! Kom, athm', und [ruh hier Aus]2 in meiner Umarmung, [Von der zu schrecklichen]3 Schlacht! Ruh hier, daß ich den Schweiß [der]4 Stirn abtrockne, Und der Wange das Blut! Wie glüht die Wange! Hermann! Hermann! so hat dich Niemals Thusnelda geliebt! Selbst nicht, [da]5 du zuerst im Eichenschatten Mit dem bräunlichen Arm mich wilder [faßtest]6! Fliehend blieb ich, und sah dir Schon die Unsterblichkeit an, Die nun dein ist! Erzählts in allen Hainen, Daß Augustus nun bang mit seinen Göttern Nektar trinket! daß Hermann, Hermann unsterblicher ist! Hermann: "Warum lockst du mein Haar? Liegt nicht der stumme Todte Vater vor uns? O hätt' Augustus Seine Heere geführt; er Läge noch blutiger da!" Thusnelda: Laß dein sinkendes Haar mich, Hermann, heben, Daß es über dem Kranz' [in]7 Locken drohe! Siegmar ist bei den Göttern! [Folg]8 du, und wein' ihm nicht nach!
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Klopstocks Oden. Erster Band. Leipzig bey Georg Joachim Göschen. 1798, pages 112-113; and with Oden von Klopstock. WIEN, gedruckt bey Joh. Thomas Edlen von Trattnern, k.k. Hofdruckern und Buchhändlern. 1784, pages 142-144.
Note: Hermann or Arminius (18 BC/17 BC - AD 21) was a chieftain of the Cherusci famous for defeating a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
1 Schubert: "Römerblut"2 Klopstock (1784 edition): "ruhe, / Hier"
3 Klopstock (1784 edition): "Aus von der donnernden"
4 Schubert: "von der"
5 Schubert: "als"
6 Schubert: "umfaßtest"
7 Klopstock (1784 edition): "im"
8 Schubert: "Folge"
Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724 - 1803), "Hermann und Thusnelda", written 1752 [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 Camillo Horn (1860 - 1941), "Thusnelda", subtitle: "Gesangs-Szene", op. 10, published 1906-1913 [ soprano and piano or orchestra ], Leipzig, Kahnt Nachfolger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748 - 1798), "Hermann und Thusnelda", published <<1779, from Oden von Klopstock, mit Melodien von Christian Gottlob Neefe, no. 4, Flensburg und Leipzig: In der Kortenschen Buchhandlung; Leipzig: Bey Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf [sung text not yet checked]
- by Andreas Jakob Romberg (1767 - 1821), "Hermann und Thusnelda", published 1793 [ voice and piano ], from Oden und Lieder fürs Clavier , no. 2, Bonn: Gestochen und zu haben bey Georg Welsch, Hofmusikus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Hermann und Thusnelda", D 322 (1815), published 1837 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Hermann i Thusnelda", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Herman en Thusnelda", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , "Hermann and Thusnelda", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Gérard Labrunie) , "Hermann et Trusnelda", written 1830, appears in Poésies allemandes
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 31
Word count: 177
Thusnelda: Ha, here he comes, covered with sweat, with the blood of Romans, Covered with the dust of battle! This is the most beautiful Hermann has ever been! This is the first time His eyes have been ablaze like that. Come, oh come, I am swooning with desire, hand me the eagle And the dripping sword! Come, breathe and rest here In my embrace to recover From the terrible battle. Rest here, so that I can wipe up the sweat from your brow And wipe the blood off your cheek! How your cheeks are glowing! Hermann, Hermann, like this, Thusnelda has never loved you like this before! Not even when in the shadow of the oak tree you first Embraced me wildly with your browinsh arms! Even in flight I remained and saw Immortality in you already, And now it is yours. Proclaim it in all the groves, That Augustus is now afraid as, with his gods, He drinks nectar! Proclaim it in all the groves, That Hermann is immortal! Hermann: Why are you curling my hair? Lying here, is not that my dumb Dead father, in front of us? Oh, if Augustus Had led his troops, it is he Who would be lying there, even more bloody! Thusnelda: Hermann, let me lift your drooping hair, So that the locks can stand up to the wreath! Siegmar is with the gods! It is your job to follow and not weep for him!
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724 - 1803), "Hermann und Thusnelda", written 1752
This text was added to the website: 2017-07-14
Line count: 31
Word count: 239