Korsa | Heilage kors er versa

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by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905)

Translation © by Are Frode Søholt

Die Kreuze

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Our translations: CHI ENG FRE ITA NYN

Heilge Kreuze sind die Verse,
Dran die Dichter stumm verbluten,
Blindgeschlagen von der Geier
Flatterndem Gespensterschwarme!

In den Leibern schwelgten Schwerter,
Prunkend in des Blutes Scharlach!
Heilge Kreuze sind die Verse,
Dran die Dichter stumm verbluten.

Tot das Haupt - erstarrt die Locken -
Fern, verweht der Lärm des Pöbels.
Langsam sinkt die Sonne nieder,
Eine rote Königskrone. -
Heilge Kreuze sind die Verse!

Text Authorship:

by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905), "Die Kreuze", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1892 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Les croix", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Die Kreuze", op. 21 no. 14 (1912), from Pierrot lunaire, no. 14 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Otto Vrieslander (1880 - 1950), "Die Kreuze", 1905?, published 1905 [ medium voice and piano ], from Pierrot lunaire, Dichtungen von A. Giraud ins deutstche übertragen von O. E. Hartleben, no. 33, München, Heinrich Lewy [sung text not yet checked]

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

CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "十字架", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Mimmi Fulmer) (Ric Merritt) , "Crosses", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Les croix", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Le croci", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
NYN Norwegian (Nynorsk) (Are Frode Søholt) , "Korsa", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 61

Korsa

Language: Norwegian (Nynorsk) after the German (Deutsch)

Heilage kors er versa
som poeten tagal blør frå,
slått til blinde av den flakkande
fantomsvermen av gribbar.

Lekamen har svelga sverda,
vellystig i det skarlagenraude blodet!
Heilage kors er versa
poeten tagal blør frå.

Livlaust hovud -- stivna lokkar --
larmen frå pøblane tagnar.
Seigt sig sola ned,
ei raud kungekrune --
Heilage kors er versa!

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to Norwegian (Nynorsk) copyright © 2008 by Are Frode Søholt, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905), "Die Kreuze", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1892
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Les croix", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2008-03-28
Line count: 13
Word count: 54