In a cool ground
In a cool ground is a poem by Joseph von Eichendorff , which can also be found under the title The Broken Ringlein .
Text history
In 1807/08, von Eichendorff wrote in his diaries about the unfulfilled love for Käthchen Förster, daughter of a Rohrbach master cooper , to which a memorial stone on the Philosophenweg in Heidelberg commemorates. This breach of loyalty probably inspired Eichendorff to write the poem.
In 1813 the poem was published under the pseudonym "Florens" and under the title Lied in the anthology of German Poets' Forest . Eichendorff also took up the poem in his 1812 and published 1815 novel Anung und Gegenwart , where it was printed for the first time under Eichendorff's own name.
Dubbing
In 1814 Friedrich Glück set the poem to music , which became famous especially as a choral setting by Friedrich Silcher under the title Infidelity . The Comedian Harmonists recorded the song as a shellac record in 1932 in an arrangement by Erwin Bootz . The song was also interpreted by the Renner Ensemble , Singer Pur , Heino , the King's Singers , Hein & Oss , the Fischer Choirs , Freddy Quinn , James Last , Roy Black , Mireille Mathieu , Chanticleer and Max Raabe .
text
The broken ring.
In a cool ground
There goes a mill wheel
My (a) dearest (b) has disappeared, who
lived there.
She promised me loyalty,
gave me a ring,
she broke loyalty,
my ring broke in two.
I would like to travel
far into the world as a minstrel,
And sing my ways,
And go from house to house.
I would like to fly as a rider
Well into the bloody battle,
To lie around silent fires
In the field at dark night.
I hear the mill wheel go:
I don't know what I want -
I would like to die, then
all of a sudden it would be quiet!
See also
literature
- Franz Magnus Böhme : Popular songs of the Germans in the 18th and 19th centuries. 1895, p. 340 f. ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
- August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben : Our folk songs. 3. Edition. W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1869, p. 90 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- Ernst Kiehl: "In a cool valley there is a mill wheel". Folklore studies on the reception of the song. 2014 ( online ; PDF; 6.5 MB).
- Wolfgang Kron: On the tradition and origin of Eichendorff's romance, The broken ring '. In: Klaus Lazarowicz, Wolfgang Kron (Hrsg.): Differentiation and preservation. Festschrift for Hermann Kunisch on his 60th birthday. de Gruyter, Berlin 1961, pp. 185–195, DOI: 10.1515 / 9783111649092-017 (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
- Theo Mang, Sunhilt Mang (ed.): The song source . Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0850-8 , pp. 324-325 .
- Heinz Rölleke (Ed.): The folk song book . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-462-02294-6 , pp. 204 .
- Walter Salmen : Eichendorff's songs in German folk song. In: Aurora. Yearbook of the Eichendorff Society. 15, 1955, ISSN 0341-1230 , pp. 74-79.
Web links
- In a cool reason with the song project by Carus-Verlag and SWR2
- Comedian Harmonists - For a cool reason on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ derwesten.de
- ^ German poet forest by Justinus Kerner , Friedrich Baron de la Motte Fouqué , Ludwig Uhland and others. Heerbrandt, Tübingen 1813, p. 40 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- ↑ Joseph von Eichendorff: Awareness and Presence. Schrag, Nuremberg 1815, p. 356 f. ( Digitized and full text in the German text archive ).
- ^ Folk music archive
- ↑ Eberhard Fechner: The Comedian Harmonists. Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-87315-7 , p. 397.
- ↑ Ulrich Etscheit, Julian Metzger (ed.): Comedian Harmonists. The original . Volume 2. Gustav Bosse, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7649-0437-2 , ISMN 979-0-2011-0437-9 (search in the DNB portal) , pp. 35-37 and Note on cover page II.
- ↑ Gerhard Dietel: A humble request for peace . mz.de , February 20, 2018
- ↑ Last Luck - Songs of the German Romantics on singerpur.de
- ↑ cover.info
- ^ Joseph von Eichendorff: Poems. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1837, p. 432 ( digitized version ).