Talking never ends
Speech never ends' is a satirical poem written by Georg Herwegh in 1848 , which the Frankfurt National Assembly criticized in its early days. It also became known under the title Zu Frankfurt an dem Main .
Emergence
There is no end to talking, 'wrote Herwegh in the summer of 1848 while he was in exile in Paris . He was responding to the formation of the Frankfurt National Assembly, from which he had little hope. It was first published on July 7, 1848 in the "Deutsche Londoner Zeitung". The original version consisted of five stanzas. In 1877 a version extended by a stanza was published, which is inserted between the fourth and the fifth stanza. In the years after 1968 the poem and especially its set versions were popular with the extra-parliamentary opposition (APO) and the student movement.
text
Source:
There is no end to talking. ' To Frankfurt an der Main -
If you look for the Wise Stone;
They are very much in need,
Moses and the prophets,
presidents and secretaries,
How to find him -
In Parla-Parla- Parliament
Talking never ends !
At Frankfurt an der Main -
We will be freed there;
The republics will
be suffocated in the womb,
And Bassermann and Welcker
will then make the peoples
happy in Parla-Parla-Parliament
Talking never ends !
To Frankfurt on the Main -
the Kaiser will soon be moving in!
Manna is already dripping through grace,
servants, Hosanna!
Marty the scoundrel, Minister -
Triumph, you Philistines!
In Parla-Parla- Parliament
Talking never ends !
At Frankfurt on the Main -
the laundry is not clean;
They brush and they brush,
The princes remain princes,
The Moors remain Moors
In spite of all the professors -
In Parla-Parla- Parliament
Talking never ends !
To Frankfurt on the Main -
everything is deception and appearance.
Old Germany remains splintered,
The Capitol trembles,
Surrounded by enemy
camps , The geese are gagging -
In the Parla-Parla-Parliament
Talking never ends !
To Frankfurt on the Main -
so beat the devil!
The world is on fire,
they are still chatting together,
how long will that take?
To the king of chess, you pawns!
Your Parla-Parla-Parliament,
O people, put an end to it!
interpretation
Herwegh criticizes the Frankfurt National Assembly very directly with his poem. This can be seen in passages such as “Soon the emperor will move in” (V.18), with which he describes the election of Archduke Johann of Austria as imperial administrator , who was the uncle of the Austrian emperor at the time. He also closes each stanza with the expression “Parla-Parla-Parlament”, which, like “The talking never ends”, expresses Herwegh's main point of criticism, the long, aimless discussions in parliament.
The stanza, which was added later, mocks the politician Heinrich von Gagern, who was elected President of the National Assembly, with the phrase “The geese giga-gagern” .
Dubbing
One has to assume that during the revolution of 1848/1849 the poem was only in circulation as text and not as a song. The poem was not set to music until the 1970s. Hein and Oss Kröher started in 1974 on their LP "Deutsche Lieder 1848/49". A few more settings by different groups followed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Herwegh: There is no end to speaking '. In: German London newspaper. Sheets for politics, literature and art. London, July 7, 1848 (no.170), Supplement, p. 680
- ^ Georg Herwegh: New poems. Issued after his death. Zurich 1877
- ↑ Ulrich Otto: The historical-political songs and caricatures of the Vormärz and the revolution of 1848/1849. Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, Cologne 1982
- ↑ To Frankfurt an dem Main - Liederlexikon Historisch -kritisches Liederlexikon, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Brsg., Center for Popular Culture and Music, Rosastraße 17-19, D-79098 Freiburg i. Brsg., Accessed on September 24, 2019