Über [den vier Städten]1 kreisen die Jagdflieger Der Verteidigung in großer Höhe [Damit]2 der Gestank der Gier und des Elends [Nicht bis zu ihnen heraufdringt.]3
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Die Gedichte von Bertolt Brecht in einem Band, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1981 (Neunte Auflage 1997), page 850
1 Eisler: "die vier Städte"2 Eisler: "vermutlich damit"
3 Eisler: "Nicht zu ihnen hinauf dringt"
Text Authorship:
- by Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), no title, appears in Hollywood-Elegien, no. 6 [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 Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Über die vier Städte", from Die Hollywood-Elegien, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Die letzte Elegie", from Hollywooder Liederbuch, no. 19 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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