Le guignol du printemps | Parce que le printemps est maintenant revenu

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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Weil nun wieder Frühling ist

Language: English

Our translations: FRE

Weil nun wieder Frühling ist,
Leute, 
streu ich butterblumengelber Kasper
[lachend]¹
Lauter lilablaue Asternblüten, 
hei, ins helle Feld!

Lilablaue Astern, liebe Leute,
Astern 
blühn im deutschen Vaterland bekanntlich 
bloß im Herbst.

[Aber]¹ ich, ich butterblumengelber Kasper,
streue,
[weil nun wieder heller Frühling ist,
tanzend]¹
tausend dunkelblaue Asternblüten, 
hei, in alle Welt!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• E. Künneke

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Confirmed with Richard Dehmel, Gesammelte Werke in drei Bänden. Zweiter Band, S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, 1913, page 40.

¹ omitted by Künneke

Text Authorship:

by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Der Frühlingskasper", appears in Weib und Welt [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 Clemens von Franckenstein (1875 - 1942), "Weil nun wieder Frühling", 1898 [ voice and piano ], Manuscript [sung text not yet checked]
by Eduard Künneke (1885 - 1953), "Der Frühlingskaspar", op. 9 no. 2 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website: 2009-08-24
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Word count: 54

Le guignol du printemps

Language: French (Français) after the English

Parce que le printemps est maintenant revenu,
Braves gens,
moi, guignol jaune bouton d'or, je sème 
en riant
des fleurs d'aster bleu lilas pur,
hé, dans les champs clairs !

Les aster bleu lilas, braves gens,
les asters,
c'est connu, au pays allemand, ne fleurissent
qu'en automne.

Mais moi, moi guignol jaune bouton d'or,
je sème,
parce que le printemps est maintenant revenu,
en dansant,
mille fleurs d'aster bleu foncé,
hé, partout dans le monde !

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Based on:

a text in English by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Der Frühlingskasper", appears in Weib und Welt
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This text was added to the website: 2012-11-13
Line count: 16
Word count: 74