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by Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945)

Frühling
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Wir wollen wie der Mondenschein
Die stille Frühlingsnacht durchwachen,
Wir wollen wie zwei Kinder sein.
Du hüllst mich in dein Leben ein
Und lehrst mich so wie du zu lachen.

Ich sehnte mich nach Mutterlieb
Und Vaterwort und Frühlingsspielen,
Den Fluch, der mich durchs Leben trieb,
Begann ich, da er bei mir blieb,
Wie einen treuen Feind zu lieben.

Nun blühn die Bäume seidenfein
Und Liebe duftet von den Zweigen.
Du mußt mir Mutter und Vater sein
Und Frühlingsspiel und Schätzelein
Und ganz mein eigen.

Confirmed with Else Lasker-Schüler, Gesammelte Gedichte, Leipzig, Verlag der Weißen Bücher, 1917, page 50.


Text Authorship:

  • by Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945), "Frühling", appears in Styx, Gedichte, first published 1902 [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 Rosemarie Becker (b. 1963), "Frühling", 1994-1996 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ralph Borchardt (b. 1968), "Frühling" [ soprano, tenor, clarinet, piano ], from Else Lasker-Schüler Lieder, no. 1, Köln, wort und mensch verlag [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Johann Karl Brandeis (1910 - 1987), "Frühling", 1961 [ alto and piano ], from Sechs Lieder, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Johann Karl Brandeis (1910 - 1987), "Frühling", 1987 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Elisabeth Dohmen (b. 1958), "Frühling", 1994 [ female voice and synthesizer ], from Lieder für Frauenstimme und Syntesizer, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Franz Ippisch (1883 - 1958), "Frühling", 1918 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Charles Kálmán (1929 - 2015), "Frühling", 1994, first performed 2000 [ voice and piano ], from Viva! [21] Lieder, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Reinhard Kröller (b. 1948), "Frühling", from Es treiben mich brennende Lebensgewalten. Ein Liederzyklus, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Lili Reiff-Sertorius (1866 - 1958), "Frühling", 1926, first performed 1927 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Frühling", 1986/2005 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from 54 Lieder für Mezzosopran und Klavier, no. 19 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Wolfgang Stockmeier (1931 - 2015), "Frühling", op. 377 (2013) [ soprano and piano ], from Dann. Ein Zyklus für Sopran und Klavier, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sybil Westendorp (1910 - 1999), "Frühling", 1983 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , "Spring", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "春天", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Karl Bellenberg [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2022-05-22
Line count: 15
Word count: 85

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