There is a bright flute

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There goes a bright flute is a German folk song from the time of National Socialism , which was created in 1938 by Hans Baumann .

Spring is welcomed in four stanzas, which share the same opening and chorus line “There is a bright flute, spring is over the country”. The spirit of optimism evoked by the melody and text has a political dimension despite the seemingly harmless text.

history

The teacher and functionary of the Hitler Youth, Hans Baumann, wrote the text and melody of the song in 1938 and published it in his collection The Bright Day . After the end of World War II, he took it up in his book The Light Flute, first published in 1948 . The song can be found in numerous song collections. According to the musicologist Thomas Phleps , Hans Baumann, who was considered a musical talent under National Socialism, was, alongside the composer Heinrich Spitta (1902–1972), the “main supplier of melodies and lyrics to the Hitler Youth”. From the context of the 1968 movement , the song was referred to in retrospect as the “lying snot of the Hitler Youth”.

See also

literature

  • Theo Mang, Sunhilt Mang (ed.): The song source . Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0850-8 , pp. 90-91 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freia Hoffmann: "The political song in school music lessons in the GDR" by Erich Neitmann (review) . In: Yearbook for Folk Song Research . tape 29 , 1984, pp. 140–141 , doi : 10.2307 / 849316 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ a b There goes a bright flute at deutscheslied.com, accessed on April 27, 2014
  3. ↑ A second revised edition of this book (published by Möseler Verlag) came out in 1951. Further editions followed.
  4. ↑ Johannes Hodek: Ethos of prudery . In: Hanns-Werner Heister, Hans-Günter Klein (Hrsg.): Music and music policy in fascist Germany (= Fischer paperback 6902). Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-596-26902-4 , p. 26 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Thomas Phleps : “It goes with a bright flute…” Some things about coming to terms with the past in music education today. In: Musik & Bildung 27. 6/1995, pp. 64–74 ( online , accessed on April 23, 2011).
  6. ↑ Adi Kwiatkowski: Die Internationale Essener Songtage 1968. In: Werner Pieper (Ed.): Everything seemed possible ... The active people of the 60s are turning 60 (= The Green Branch Volume 252). Pieper & The Grüne Kraft, Löhrbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-925817-52-6 , pp. 45–49, here p. 46 ( limited preview in the Google book search). Also with: Philipp Schmidt-Rhaesa: Development of songwriting . Festival "Politics and Music 2004" Burg Waldeck, accessed on April 23, 2011