Song of youth
The song of the youth with the first line "You boys, close the ranks well!" Was unofficially called the Dollfuss song and was sung in the Austro-Fascist corporate state from 1936 in honor of Chancellor and dictator Engelbert Dollfuss , who was murdered in July 1934 .
The initiative for this song came from Kurt Schuschnigg . The text is by Rudolf Henz , the melody by the RAVAG composer and conductor Alois Dostal (1878–1953).
The youth song was often sung in the corporate state following the national anthem Be blessed without end introduced in 1929 , just as the Horst Wessel song followed the Deutschlandlied in the National Socialist German Reich . (German and Austrian anthems were sung to the same Haydn melody at the time .)
The Dollfuss song is not to be confused with the song Dem Morgenrotgegen, published in 1910 , which is also known as the “Song of Youth”.
Kurt Schubert (1923–2007) wrote in his autobiography that Austrofascism was “completely under the influence of Italian fascism ” and that at the same time it was decidedly anti-National Socialist. The latter is particularly evident from the second stanza. He also pointed out that the Fascist Party's anthem was the song Giovinezza (youth (time)).
See also
Web links
- Text of the song on ingeb.org (fourth stanza incomplete)
- Entry on Dollfuß Lied in the Austria forum
- Reproduced from the Austrian media library , title: “A dead man leads us to” , song from February 24, 1938
- Original version on a record of the Fatherland Front (MP3; 3 MB)