Three chants
Drei Gesänge is a volume of poetry by Stefan George . The volume was published in 1921 in George Bondi publishing house , Berlin, and contains the poems to the dead , the poet in times of turmoil and a young leader in the First World War . The first edition (it remained the only edition in this form) appeared as an octave volume with eight pages on two thread-sewn sheets, surrounded by a blue, gold-printed cover. On the front cover, under the name of the poet, the work and the names of the three poems contained , the neo-Gothic signet of the Blätter für die Kunst , designed by Melchior Lechter , including the publisher, place and year of publication. The back of the cover is named Otto von Holten and the date December 1921.
dedication
The first page is dedicated to Count Bernhard Uxkull's memory . Together with his friend Adalbert Cohrs , the poet and flag junior Bernhard Graf Uxkull-Gyllenband shot himself on July 29, 1918 in a barracks of the imperial army on Poststrasse in Kaldenkirchen .
history
The poem To the Dead had already appeared in the Blätter für die Kunst in 1919 . When the poet in times of turmoil and a young leader in the First World War is first editions. All three poems appeared in 1928 in George's volume of poems Das Neue Reich , which was published as Volume IX of the complete edition, with the poem To the Dead being given the new title Sprüche an die Toten and thus in relation to the cycle Sprüche an die Leben in this volume was set.
font
The volume is from the book and art print shop Otto v. Holten is set in the so-called Stefan George font designed by Melchior Lechter based on the grotesque .