Albertina songbook

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The Albertina songbook was an illustrated collection of student songs written by Ludwig Clericus in Königsberg i. Pr. Was issued. In 1934 Eduard Loch obtained a new edition with extensive commentary, which was reprinted in 2005 and 2009. The colored originals of the songbook are lost.

history

Edited and illustrated by “LC, civis academiae Albertinae corporis Masurorum senior” , the songbook was published in lithography and print by Adolph Wilutzky in Königsberg. Only the first part is known, which contained 50 songs in eight deliveries. Until the Second World War , the Corps Masovia had only received the first four deliveries in several pieces. Deliveries 5 to 8 are considered lost. The first three deliveries were given to the Königsberg State and University Library in 1933. She was the only one in Germany to own this unique item.

24 songs can already be found in the Alma Albertina's songbook , which was published in 1844 by the Königsberger Universitätsbuchhandlung publishing house. Among them were lesser-known songs, like No. 10 ( Brothers, it says beer instead of wine ), No. 23 ( Sung and jumped ) and No. 32 ( Let the damned Manicheans knock ).

Most of the rest can also be found in the other Kommers books of that time, e. B. in the old Leipziger Kommersbuch and in Karl Göpel's Deutsches Lieder- und Commersbuch with over 500 songs (Stuttgart 1847, 1858). Only four are not included: No. 2 ( you can't be funny at all times ), No. 28 ( Ick and my young wife ), No. 24 ( Today our songs resound , a text by Hempel to the melody of a Polish mazurka) and No. 18 (The light of the sun has gone out , a Polish song by Countess Ida Hahn ).

Most of the old Königsberg songs were sung by Masovia at the turn of the 20th century. Only two of the 50 songs were intended for the corps, the color song (No. 37, see pictures) and the Masurian song (No. 48). Clericus had only put the old coat of arms of Masovia next to him to mark it as the covenant song of his corps.

Songs

  1. All be silent
  2. You can never be funny
  3. Allons enfants
  4. When Noah was out of the box
  5. At the Pregels beach
  6. Come on, brothers, let us live happily
  7. The spirit was created out of fire
  8. The lovely full cup is crowned with leaves
  9. Bring me the blood of the noble vines
  10. Brothers, it's beer instead of wine
  11. Ça ça feasted
  12. The fellow of real shot and grain
  13. The Pope lives gloriously in the world
  14. The people of Binschgau wanted to go on pilgrimages
  15. A blacksmith sat in good rest
  16. A Cent and a Dime
  17. A cute girl
  18. The sun's light is extinguished
  19. There were three journeymen
  20. The battle was once fought at Belle Alliance
  21. Three boys drew
  22. Gaudeamus
  23. Sung and jumped
  24. Today our songs resound
  25. Yes, the best life
  26. I am Doctor Eisenbart
  27. I don't know what is it supposed to mean
  28. Ick and my young wife
  29. To expect your loved one
  30. I sit here in the cool cellar
  31. In the dark grounds of the forest
  32. Let the damned Manicheans knock
  33. Mihi est propositum
  34. Fought with men
  35. Poland is not lost yet
  36. Beautiful Minka, I have to divorce
  37. See how proud I look around (color song)
  38. Are we not born to glory
  39. I stand in gloomy midnight
  40. Toast, Albertina should live
  41. Studio on its journey
  42. Viola, bass and violins
  43. From the high Olympus down we got joy
  44. Was once a young young carpenter
  45. What is the German fatherland
  46. What comes from the height there
  47. When the Atlantic Sea
  48. The lake floods wildly (Masurian song)
  49. Wake up, comrades
  50. Well still drunk the sparkling wine

Illustrations

In terms of cultural history , the illustrations are even more important than the songs. From the two dates - "Michaelmas 1850" in the foreword and "May 1851" on the back of the cover - it can be seen that the final edition took more than six months after the first draft. During this time, Clericus attended the Königsberg art academy . The drawings can only be compared with the “works” by Franz Pocci and Ludwig Richter .

“The illustrations are partly full or half-page, partly as vignettes or framing the texts. A wealth of funny and happy ideas gushes out from these leaves towards the viewer. The unique value and the exquisite peculiarity lie in the fact that the drawings are true-to-life images of Königsberg contemporaries in their traditional costumes and of the entire student life of that time in earnest and jest; Kneiptafel, country father. Mensur and other things from around 1850 come to life. "

- H.-H. Müller-Dieckert

“So the true student humor and spirit at Clericus shows itself in natural freshness and authenticity compared to the poetic, but often softly sentimental and only felt, not personally experienced moods of L. Richter. Clericus is at the end of romanticism, but in depicting the romanticism of his contemporaries, he remains closer to the reality of life and portrays it more genuinely than the one who surrounded his characters with the magic of the past and portrayed them in the postures and clothes of an earlier time and generalized. Clericus' students and Philistines are no fantasy figures, but rather his Königsberg contemporaries in the real costumes shown above, so that they offer us a loyal and valuable cultural monument to the middle of the 19th century. And where the content of his songs leads him from reality into a fictitious world of fantasy, tangible forms of his environment appear in it with a humorous character. His ingenuity is wonderfully rich when he is not satisfied with just one picture for each song, as earlier draftsmen did, but rather illustrates all the verses in funny little scenes. And this also shows his special peculiarity that he not only follows the words and moods of the songs more closely than others and reproduces them faithfully in details, but that from his rich imagination and inner experience he gives his characters small and witty new features gives own life. So he really takes an independent position in this whole field of student images. "

- Eduard Loch, 1934

See also

literature

  • The Albertina's illustrated songbook. WJK Verlag, Hilden 2009, ISBN 978-3-940891-32-7
  • Wilhelm Erman , Ewald Horn: Bibliography of the German universities. Systematically ordered directory of books and articles on German universities that were printed up to the end of 1899. 3 volumes. Leipzig 1904 and 1905
  • Hans-Heinrich Müller-Dieckert: Ludwig Clericus Masoviae and the illustrated songbook of the Albertina. In: then and now. 23: 309-321 (1978).

Web links

Commons : song book of the Albertina by Ludwig Clericus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In: Corps Masovia. The 175-year history of Königsberg's oldest and Potsdam's first corporation in the 21st century . Munich 2005, ISBN 3-00-016108-2 , pp. 591-660.
  2. ^ Franz Pocci: Old and new student songs with pictures and ways of singing . Landshut 1844
  3. ^ L. Richter, AE Marschner: Old and new student songs with pictures and ways of singing . Leipzig 1844.
  4. ↑ Georg Scherer (ed.): Student songs with pictures and ways of singing. Illustrated by Franz Pocci and Ludwig Richter . Leipzig undated, probably 1856