I'm so wild for your strawberry mouth

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A ballad in love for a girl named Yssabeau , also known as I am so wild after your strawberry mouth or The strawberry mouth for short , after the first line , is a poem written by Paul Zech in 1930 . The poem is part of Zech's little book The vicious songs and ballads of François Villon (Weimar 1931 and Munich: dtv, 1962 and more often). Contrary to the opinion of many Zech specialists, this is not a Villon transfer, but a collection of extremely freely recreated and entirely freely invented texts in the Villon style.

Zechs poem became famous after 1953 through the Villon recitations by the actor Klaus Kinski . It was a highlight, not least because of the accompanying gestures. Incidentally, Kinski recited from the original version of Zech's Villon from 1931, which is often (and also in the case of the "Erdbeermund") considerably more hearty than the revised version of the " Villon ”from 1943, which forms the basis of the 1962 Villon edition of dtv, which is mostly read in this country. On his famous speech record Kinski speaks Villon from 1959, the text is represented in the version from 1931. Kinski's 1975 autobiography uses that of the poem as the title.

The strawberry mouth in music

Culture Beat

Chart positions
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Singles
Strawberry Mouth (Culture Beat)
  DE 11 11/20/1989 (18 weeks)
  UK 55 02/03/1990 (3 weeks)

One of the most commercially successful musical releases of the Erdbeermund comes from Culture Beat and Jo van Nelsen in 1989. It was the debut single from Culture Beat and can be found on their debut album Horizon . The piece was written by Mary S. Applegate, Torsten Fenslau , Nosie Katzmann and Jens Zimmermann ; the single was produced by Fenslau and Zimmermann. The single became Culture Beats' first chart success in Germany and Austria. The song was published internationally under the title Cherry Lips and in French-speaking countries under the title Les lèvres cerise .

In Extremo

On 22 September 2003, the German published medieval rock - band In Extremo a cover version of the song. After Küss mich, the piece was the second single release from their seventh studio album 7 . A corresponding music video comes from the German director Uwe Flade.

B. Infinite Vs. Chris Cowley

On September 23, 2016, the German published disco - and deep house duo B.Infinite and Chris Cowley , a cover version of The Erdbeermund . A month later, a remix EP with the title Der Erdbeermund - The Remixes was released on November 4, 2016.

More cover versions

  • 1979: Achim Reichel - I'm so wild (after your strawberry mouth) , from the album Heisse Scheibe
  • 1989: Sigmund und seine Freu (n) de - I'm so wild (after your strawberry mouth)
  • 1991: Willy Astor - I'm so mad about a strawberry dog , from the album Mamabuwerl
  • 1995: Subway to Sally - Erdbeermund , from the album MCMXCV
  • 2006: Tiefenrausch - Erdbeermund , from the album Enfant Terrible
  • 2010: Jerome Jerkins - Strawberry Mouth
  • 2014: Franz Ferdinand - Erdbeer Mund , from the B-side to Fresh Strawberries

Trivia

Baudelaire also uses the term “strawberry mouth” (“bouche de fraise”) in his poem Les Métamorphoses du Vampire , but it refers to the speaking mouth of the evoked woman and not, as with Zech, who below “is so deep in the hair [ e] ”, a metaphor for the female genitals. (See Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal , Le Livre de Poche , 1999, pp. 218/19.)

literature

  • Gert Pinkernell : Paul Zech and his “vicious songs and ballads by François Villon ”. In: Euphorion. Journal for the History of Literature , Vol. 104, 2010, pp. 371–391.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Culture Beat feat. Jo van Nelsen - The strawberry mouth. officialcharts.de, accessed on December 7, 2016 .
  2. ^ Culture Beat. officialcharts.com, accessed December 7, 2016 .
  3. Director of Erdbeermund ( Memento from December 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Video: Franz Ferdinand - "Strawberry Mouth" . Retrieved March 4, 2014.