I want me to be at home

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I want me to be at home , original text in the edition by Philipp Wackernagel

I want me to be at home is a poem by Heinrich Laufenberg from the year 1430. It is about the orientation of Christians towards eternity as their true home . With the melody also recorded in 1430 ? / I by an unknown author, it is one of the songs of the Protestant hymnbook (no. 517, topic "death and eternal life," there as ecumenical in song). Audio file / audio sample

First receipt and reception

The text and melody were handed down in a Strasbourg song manuscript with the year 1430, perhaps Laufenberg's autograph , which, however, burned in 1870. It is based on the print edition of Philipp Wackernagel from 1867. It was only through Wackernagel that the song, which had been forgotten for centuries, became known again, including temporary alternative melodies. Otto Riethmüller took it in 1932 with the original tune in his "Songbook for the German Protestant Youth" A new song , from there it came in 1950 into the Protestant church hymnbook . However, it did not gain greater popularity in either Catholic or Protestant church chant.

text

Laufenberg, priest and poet , formulates the longing self- challenge to strive from the world of need and death, which is "too small" and "false appearance" for the soul, into the kingdom of heaven , to the eternal sight of God (cf. 2 Cor 5, 6-8  EU ). He names renunciation, repentance and improvement of life as the way to get there. The salvation through Jesus Christ remains unexpliziert.

1. I want me to be at home
and lack consolation in all worlds.

2. I mean, at home in the kingdom of heaven,
since I see God forever.

3. Welfare, my soul, and present yourself,
there your angels are waiting.

4. Because the
whole world is too small for you , you will only come home again.

5. At home there is life without death
and all joy without need.

6. There are a thousand years like today
and nothing that annoys and repents you.

7. Welfare, my heart and all my courage,
and look for good, above all good!

8. What it is not, take it small
and look back at all times .

9. You don't have to stay here,
whether it happens tomorrow or today.

10. Since it cannot be otherwise,
flee the worlds false appearances.

11. Repent of your sin and improve yourself
as if you wanted to go to heaven tomorrow.

12. Goodbye, world, God bless you!
I'm going to heaven.

melody

The short, modal melody, symmetrical like inhaling and exhaling or question and answer, is "of artistic simplicity". Hugo Distler arranged the song as a motet in his Geistliche Chormusik op. 12 (1935–1941).

literature

  • Christa Reich : I want me to be at home. In: Hansjakob Becker u. a. (Ed.): Geistliches Wunderhorn. Great German hymns. 2nd, revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-48094-2 , pp. 94-103.
  • Christa Reich: 517 - I want me to be at home . In: Gerhard Hahn , Jürgen Henkys (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelisches Gesangbuch . No. 9 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-50332-6 , pp. 63–68 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : I want me to be at home  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philipp Wackernagel: The German hymn from the earliest times to the beginning of the 17th century. Volume 2, Leipzig 1867, p. 540
  2. ↑ The song was u. a. contained in the Paderborn diocesan prayer and hymn book Sursum corda . In the Praise of God (1975 and 2013) it is missing.
  3. ↑ It is a “song that is almost never sung today” (Reich, Liederkunde, p. 67).
  4. ↑ Text version of the Evangelical Hymnal No. 517
  5. ^ Reich, Liederkunde, p. 66