Blue and white, how I love you

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Schalke fans in Gelsenkirchen

Blue and white, how do I love you is the official club song of FC Schalke 04 . It goes back to the hunter's song Praise of the Green Color by Ludwig von Wildungen , written in 1797 . In 1924 the first shift to blue and white was made . The version used today dates from 1959 and was written by the Cologne musician Hans J. König .

Prehistory of the song

Ludwig von Wildungen , chief forest master in Hesse and romantic hunting writer from the "high time of German hunting poetry" between 1790 and 1860, wrote the poem Praise of the green color in 1797 . The song praises everything green and contains, among other things, a reference to the prophet Mohammed , who had a close relationship with this color. Over the next few decades, the poem developed into a folk song with various text changes and melodies . Over the years it has received the title Green is Forest and Field . In the song book general society song book, containing: the best, most popular and newest of Germany's celebrated singers , published in 1841 by J. J. Algier in Reutlingen , it is listed as song no. 700 recorded with eleven stanzas. During the March Revolution , it was repositioned as Meine Brüder im Friedrichshain in memory of those who died in March . This rededication is documented in the song book Volkslieder aus dem Eulengebirge by W. Schremmer as a "freedom song" published in 1912 as well as in G. Amft's folk songs from the county of Glatz, published a year earlier .

Club song of FC Schalke 04

Melody and first line of text to "Blue and White, how I love you"

In the course of the " clean divorce " between gymnasts and athletes, the soccer department of TuS Schalke separated from the club in 1877 and founded the Schalke 04 soccer club . With this re-establishment, the year of which referred to the predecessor club Westfalia Schalke , founded in 1904, new club colors were also determined: blue and white. In the same year, the club anthem was created based on the folk song. Its text was first documented in 1935, but has probably been changed several times over the years. The folk song archive quotes four stanzas that are no longer available in today's version. One of them must have been created after the first German championship of FC Schalke 04 (1934), as it is about the title won. The former Schalke player Werner Schellhase remembered in 2008 that in the past, "Blue and White" was always sung in a five-verse version. The text was last changed in 1959. Hans J. König, Schalke fan and musician from Cologne, wanted to record the song on a record. Since he was no longer familiar with the text, he and a few friends composed new verses in the Hodeige restaurant in Cologne on Vorgebirgsstraße. He took the text of the folk song Grün ist Wald und Flur as a template, on which the melody of “Blue and White, how I love you” is based. In 1963 the official version was attributed to the Cologne resident who has owned the rights to it ever since.

controversy

Logo of FC Schalke 04 in the colors since 1924: blue and white

The third verse of the song in the 1963 version was the subject of a controversy in August 2009, which caused international media coverage. The focus of the discussion were the verses "Mohammed was a prophet / He doesn't understand anything about playing football / But out of all the beautiful blaze of colors / Did he come up with the blue and white". After Turkish newspapers drew attention to the lines, Yavuz Özoguz called on the Muslim-Markt Internet portal that he operated to protest against the song and to boycott Schalke 04 games. As a result, over 100 angry emails and letters were received at the Schalke office, in which the club was asked to remove the song lines, as they would mock the prophet Mohammed .

The association commissioned the Islamic scholar Bülent Ucar to prepare an expert opinion. Like other experts, he came to the conclusion that the song did not contain any “anti-Islamic sentiments”. The head of the Central Institute for Islam Archive Germany , Muhammad Salim Abdullah , assessed the outrage of some Muslims about the anthem as "a lack of humor that stinks to heaven". The text is "not an insult", but a "confirmation song" that Muslims should "sing along with full throat". Aiman ​​Mazyek , General Secretary of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, initially attributed the protests to the fact that many Muslims in Germany no longer felt a “feeling of security” after the murder of Marwa El-Sherbini . But also "right-wing extremist authors" of the numerous anonymous hate mails were conceivable in his opinion. Agitators from the right corner would use “every opportunity” “to exploit their hatred and resentment against Muslims,” warned Mayzek in the forum on Friday . In fact, immediately after the controversy began , the Gelsenkirchen section of the right-wing extremist group of voters Pro NRW announced that it would start a campaign to ward off “Islamist attacks” on FC Schalke 04.

The controversial third stanza did not belong to the original version of the song, but was one of the rewritten or added poems by Hans J. König. He had followed the lines from Green is Forest and Field . There it says: "Mohammed was a prophet / who understands all sorts of colors. / And from all the splendor of colors / He thought up the beautiful green after all." In Wildungen's original poem, the stanza with reference to the founder of Islam was: "Mahomed is my patron! / He already knew real beauty; / He to whom of the multitude of colors / Only the green was sacred. // He should live, Mr. Prophet, / He who knows colors! ” Green is the color of Islam in which the prophet should have preferred to dress. "König obviously thought that someone who 'understands all sorts of colors' could naturally come up with the blue and white of his club", wrote FC Schalke 04 in its statement on the dispute over the lyrics.

Use at other sports clubs

With more or less changed text - depending on the club colors - the song is also a club song of other German sports and football clubs. The SV Förste from Osterode am Harz sings about the fact that Mohammed came up with the " green and white". The SG Herten-Langenbochum also has the blue and white, but a fifth stanza with a football queen. TSG Niederfüllbach gives three stanzas of Grün ist Wald und Flur under the title Grün ach Grün as a club song . TuS Langenfeld took over the song completely from FC Schalke 04, except for the club name. TuS Dotzlar in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district sings "White and blue, how I love you, what hope, what consolation for me". There, too, Mohamed can be heard in the second verse.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  7. ↑ Stefan Goch, Norbert Silberbach: Gray lies between blue and white . Klartext Verlag , Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-433-6 , p. 48 f .
  8. ↑ Blue and white how I love you (Schalke 04). In: volksliederarchiv.de. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
  9. ↑ a b That is not the club song. In: The West / WAZ. February 11, 2008, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved July 7, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Thomas Spiegel, Gerd Voss: Almost everything about Schalke 04 . KiWi paperback, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04101-9 , p. 75 .
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  19. ↑ Schalke sticks to the club anthem despite criticism. In: derwesten.de. August 6, 2009, accessed July 7, 2015 .
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  21. ↑ cf. Aiman ​​Mazyek: Hold the ball flat. In: qantara.de. August 12, 2009, archived from the original on August 15, 2009 ; Retrieved August 23, 2009 .
  22. ↑ unwanted per NRW on Schalke! In: Schalker Fan-Initiative eV August 14, 2009, accessed on August 23, 2009 .
  23. ↑ Expulsion for extremists on Schalke club grounds. In: schalke04.de. August 14, 2009, archived from the original on January 11, 2010 ; Retrieved August 23, 2009 .
  24. ↑ quoted after Muslims protest against Schalke anthem. In: wdr.de. August 3, 2009, archived from the original on August 5, 2009 ; Retrieved August 22, 2009 .
  25. ^ Statement by FC Schalke 04 on its club song. In: schalke04.de. August 6, 2009; archived from the original on January 9, 2010 ; Retrieved August 22, 2009 .
  26. ^ Association song of SV Förste. In: sv-foerste.de. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
  27. ^ Association songs of the SG Langenbochum. In: sglangenbochum.de. Archived from the original on July 25, 2009 ; Retrieved August 7, 2009 .
  28. ↑ Club song of TSG Niederfüllbach. In: tsg-niederfuellbach.de. Retrieved August 7, 2009 .
  29. ^ Association song of the TuS Langenfeld. In: tuslangenfeld.de. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved August 7, 2009 .
  30. ^ Website of the TuS Dotzlar. In: tusdotzlar.de. Archived from the original on July 21, 2007 ; Retrieved August 7, 2009 .