Skurkestrek! | På den blanke skallen til Kassander

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by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905)

Translation © by Are Frode Søholt

Gemeinheit!

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

Our translations: CHI ENG FRE ITA NYN

In den blanken Kopf Cassanders,
Dessen Schrein die Luft durchzetert,
Bohrt Pierrot mit Heuchlermienen,
Zärtlich - einen Schädelbohrer!

Darauf stopft er mit dem Daumen
Seinen echten türkischen Taback
In den blanken Kopf Cassanders,
Dessen Schrein die Luft durchzetert!

Dann dreht er ein Rohr von Weichsel
Hinten in die glatte Glatze
Und behäbig schmaucht und pafft er
Seinen echten türkischen Taback
Aus dem blanken Kopf Cassanders!

Text Authorship:

by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905), "Gemeinheit", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893 [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, "Pierrot cruel", 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), "Gemeinheit!", op. 21 no. 16 (1912), from Pierrot lunaire, no. 16 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Otto Vrieslander (1880 - 1950), "Gemeinheit", 1905?, published 1905 [ low voice and piano ], from Pierrot lunaire, Dichtungen von A. Giraud ins deutstche übertragen von O. E. Hartleben, no. 9, München, Heinrich Lewy [sung text not yet checked]

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

CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "卑鄙", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Mimmi Fulmer) (Ric Merritt) , "Practical joke", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Vulgarité", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Una canagliata!", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
NYN Norwegian (Nynorsk) (Are Frode Søholt) , "Skurkestrek!", 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: 64

Skurkestrek!

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

På den blanke skallen til Kassander,
medan han spjærar lufta med ville skrik
borer Pierrot, den hyklaren,
ømt og varleg -- med ei skallebor!

gnurer han med tommelfingeren
sin ekte tyrkiske tobakk
på den blanke skallen til Kassander,
medan han spjærar lufta med ville skrik.

Så skrur han eit røyr av kirsebærtre
inn under den blanke issen
og med velbehag tar han drag og smattar på
sin ekte tyrkiske tobakk
frå den blanke skallen til Kassander.

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), "Gemeinheit", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Pierrot cruel", 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: 75