In Welschland, wo die braunen Buben vom Straßenrand In die heiße Bläue staunen, Da bin ich wohl bekannt. Dort wachsen schwarze Bäume Wie Fackeln steil und schlank, Die machen dir alle Träume Von welscher Liebe krank. Dort schlagen blaue Wellen An [golden]1 braunen Stein, Dir fallen dabei viel Stellen Aus den schönsten Liedern ein. Und wo drei Bäume stehen, Das nennen sie einen Wald, Darunter siehst du gehen Manch schöne Frauengestalt. Und wenn dir eine gegeben Einen Kuß auf deinen Mund, So bist du krank fürs Leben Und wirst nicht mehr gesund.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, pages 491-492.
1 Schoeck: "goldig"Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Auskunft", written 1901 [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 Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Auskunft", op. 8 no. 3 (1906), published 1907 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Informació", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Information", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Renseignement", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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