I am a poor exile

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I am a poor exile is an emigrant song written in 1686 by the miner and Protestant religious fighter Joseph Schaitberger . The song was written as a reaction to the expulsion from Salzburg by Archbishop Max Gandolf von Kuenburg , on Schaitberger's trip to Nuremberg. Schaitberger, along with Mattias Kammel and Simon Lindtner, was the leader of a small community of miners on the Dürrnberg who secretly held Protestant services and no longer attended Catholic masses. Previous attempts to force Schaitberger and his colleagues to renounce their faith by means of imprisonment failed.

I am a poor exile
- So I have to write to myself -
I am taken from my fatherland
To drive out God's word.

The text should be based on the melody of the song composed by Michael Praetorius in 1610 , I thank you already through your son and stop, dear soul, the Lord is calling you! have been sung. It can still be found under the first melody in the Austrian regional section of the Evangelical Hymnal .
During the “Great Emigration” from 1731 onwards, the song gained great popularity among Salzburg exiles . In return, two (Catholic) parodies are known: You are a poor exile and Hiaz are a poor exile .

Hiaz are in poor exile
Must go on strange streets.
You should have prayed for God and Lord
he should leave the nit!

swell

  1. ↑ August Hartmann: Historical folk songs and contemporary poems from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries , Vol. 2., pp. 274–276, quoted here. according to Hailer-Schmidt 2004, p. 518
  2. ^ Protestant hymn book, Austrian regional part No. 625
  3. ↑ SMCA, Stadtarchiv, manuscript 4055/3, quoted here. according to Hailer-Schmidt 2004, p. 523

literature

  • Annette Hailer-Schmidt: "We can no longer live here". German emigrant songs of the 18th and 19th centuries. Backgrounds, motifs, functions. Elwert, Marburg 2004, ISBN 3-7708-1260-3 (plus dissertation, University of Freiburg / B. 2002).
  • August Hartmann: Historical folk songs and contemporary poems from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century; Vol. 2 . Olms, Hildesheim 1972, ISBN 3-487-04394-7 (reprint of the Munich 1910 edition).