An old Tibetan carpet
An old Tibetan carpet is a poem by the poet Else Lasker-Schüler . It is one of her best known and most anthology- included poems.
It was created in 1910, the first edition appeared on December 8, 1910 in the magazine Der Sturm , published by Herwarth Walden , Else Lasker-Schüler's second husband . Karl Kraus reprinted it three weeks later in his magazine Die Fackel . In 1911 it appeared in the third volume of poems, Meine Wunder , published by Lasker-Schüler .
text
- An old Tibetan carpet
- Your soul that loves mine
- Is forfeited with her in the carpet Tibet.
- Beam in beam, colors in love,
- Stars courting each other for the sky.
- Our feet rest on the precious
- Meshes of a thousand and a thousand.
- Sweet lama son on musk plant throne,
- How long will your mouth kiss mine?
- And Wang the cheek of brightly knotted times?
Aspects of Interpretation
In the poem, various dimensions are artfully interwoven and mirrored: the threads of the carpet that gives the image, the souls of lovers and the "texture" of the text with its tonal and formal connections. At the same time, the density and narrowness are lifted into space and time. Another characteristic are bold word compositions and new creations , which among other things reflect the color motifs of the poem.
Judgments and reception
For Karl Kraus, An old Tibetan carpet was among the poems “one of the most delightful and moving that I have ever read, and there are few from Goethe downwards in which, as in this Tibetan carpet, sense and sound, word and image, language and soul are interwoven are".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hajo Jahn (ed.), What are you doing in ... Vienna? 10. Almanac of the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft, Wuppertal 2013, p. 396
- ↑ Quoted from: Sigrid Bauschinger : Else Lasker-Schüler. A biography, Frankfurt / M. 2006, p. 148
Web links
- Karl Jürgen Skrodzki on "An old Tibetan carpet"
- Link collection to "An old Tibetan carpet"
literature
Karl Bellenberg, An old Tibetan carpet . In: Hajo Jahn (ed.), What are you doing in ... Vienna? 10. Almanac of the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft, Wuppertal 2013, pp. 325–329