A hunter from the Electoral Palatinate

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Representation at Ludwigshafener Ludwigsplatz

The song from the hunter from Kurpfalz is a well-known German folk song that deals with the hunt and the amusements associated with it. The song originally had a crude sexual meaning. In modern songbooks, however, the barely concealed suggestive stanzas 3 to 5 are not printed, whereby the song is played down and given a new meaning - the symbol of the cuckoo in stanza 6, which refers to the witnessing of illegitimate children (the eloquent cuckoo children ), like this no longer makes sense. Often only the first verse is sung.

Originator

Both the author of the text and the composer of the melody are unknown, the text and the way of playing were probably passed down orally. The creation is often dated to 1763 following an unprovable assumption by Ludwig Erks . Erk- Böhme speculate that it originated at the beginning of the 18th century “during the heyday of German hunting pleasure”. The song has actually been traceable since 1794. The melody known today was recorded before 1808 by Leo von Seckendorf , who also published the text in his Musenalmanach for 1808; Franz Magnus Böhme , who had Seckendorf's now-lost handwriting, describes the melody as the one printed in the Deutsches Liederhort, “the same except for a few notes”.

Historical role model

Inscription on the monument inaugurated by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1913 at the Entenpfuhl forester's lodge for Friedrich Wilhelm Utsch

The historical model for the hunter from the Electoral Palatinate is assumed to be the hereditary forester Friedrich Wilhelm Utsch from Rheinböllen in the Hunsrück , who is usually given in the literature, but also Johann Kasimir von der Pfalz-Simmern . In Utsch it is further suspected that his chaplain, the Carmelite Father Martinus Klein, then wrote the verses of the song, but this cannot be proven. On the other hand, records point to Johann Adam Melsheimer . In the time before Utsch, from 1719 to 1757, he was the Palatinate "Riding Forester in the Lower Soon ". Some also see him as the legendary hunter from the Electoral Palatinate.

Elector Karl Theodor of the Palatinate with the Order of Hubert .

Most likely in recent research is the thesis that the Palatinate and Bavarian Elector Karl Theodor (1724–1799) was a model for the hunter from the Electoral Palatinate. He was Grand Master of the Order of Hubert and liked to organize ceremonial hunts; he also had children from two extramarital relationships.

text

Note image

1. A hunter from the Electoral Palatinate,
who rides through the green forest,
he shoots the game,
no matter how he likes it.

Refrain:
|: Juja, Juja, the hunting
   All here on green Heid ',
   All here on green Heid',: |

2. Up! Saddles my horse
and lays the
coat sack on it, so I ride back and forth
As a hunter from the Palatinate.
Refrain:

3. Hubertus on the hunt, he
shot a stag and a hare.
He met a girl,
and that was eighteen years.
Refrain:

4. The hunter's lust
The great gentlemen are aware
, yes, yes, aware,
how to shoot the game.
Refrain:

5. Probably between his legs,
The stag must have been shot , He must be shot
,
At one, two, three.
Refrain:

6. Now I'll never ride home,
Until the cuckoo, cuckoo screams,
He screams all night
here on green heather!
Refrain:

parody

The following text is from Hoffmann von Fallersleben , who sometimes used melodies for his critical songs in order to make them popular that were popular at the time.

The awakened consciousness (1844)

1. We politicize
with a pipe of tobacco,
with a good pipe of tobacco
and a glass of beer
.

Refrain:
|: Juja, juja! The state that has such citizens
is
truly happy
.: |

2. A
lot is told, a
lot and a lot of things are told,
argued and laughed,
and many a joke is made.
Refrain:

3.
Then we toast,
also to German freedom,
and our police
happily sit with us .
Refrain:

4.
And when the hour strikes,
and when the ceremony strikes,
the lights are extinguished
and we, we go home.
Refrain:

Others

Depiction on a youth stamp of the Deutsche Bundespost (1958)
  • The hunter from the Electoral Palatinate, drawn by Loriot , was the mascot of the 1975 Federal Horticultural Show in Mannheim .
  • Helmut Kohl used in public appearances, such as B. election campaign events or receptions, to have the song played or sung (of course without stanzas 3 to 5), as it comes from the area of ​​the historic Electoral Palatinate.

literature

Web links

Commons : A hunter from Kurpfalz  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikibooks: Songbook / A hunter from Kurpfalz  - learning and teaching materials

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Tobias Widmaier: A hunter from Kurpfalz (2008). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
  2. ↑ a b Ludwig Erk , Franz Magnus Böhme (Ed.): Deutscher Liederhort . Volume 3. Leipzig 1893-94 (reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1963), p. 315 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Leo Freiherr von Seckendorf: Musenalmanach for the year 1808. Montag and Weiss, Regensburg [1807], p. 62 f. ( Digitized in the Google book search)
  4. ↑ History of Auen: Friedrich Wilhelm Utsch, called the hunter from the Electoral Palatinate ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Spall Soonwald - The hunter from Kurpfalz
  6. ^ Karl Scherer: Count Palatine Johann Casimir (1543–1592) and the folk song "A hunter from the Electoral Palatinate". In: Werner Kremp (Ed.): The Huntsman from Kurpfalz. About the clash and cooperation between German and American hunting culture. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2002, ISBN 3-88476-559-0 , pp. 29-64.
  7. ↑ Hoffmann von Fallersleben: The awakened consciousness
  8. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: The great Zapfenstreich. Conversation with Lieutenant Colonel Heiner Bröckermann from the Military History Research Office in Potsdam. ) DRadio Wissen from March 10, 2011, accessed: April 2, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / Wissen.dradio.de