Lippe-Detmold, a beautiful city
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Lippe-Detmold, a beautiful city, is a tragic-comic soldier's song of unknown origin. In the Deutsches Liederhort (1893) it is still missing. Max Friedlaender writes in the comment section of his German song treasure trove (around 1920) that it “only became known in the last few decades”, so not long before 1900. It has been in the Zupfgeigenhansl since the 10th edition in 1913 .
The text is about a single soldier in the "beautiful" "big city" "Lippe-Detmold", who has to go to war and is injured there by the first shot and killed by the second shot, but before that his comrade for a letter to his Bride asks. The final is the general's complaint that he can no longer wage war because his only soldier is dead. This is described with everyday expressions without strict meter and without rhymes in comical contrast to the bloody-sad events. The song can also be seen as a parody of the military power of German duo-dean principalities .
The song is often associated with the Napoleonic Wars, especially with the Battle of Preussisch Eylau (1807), but there is no early evidence of this. Friedlaender states Westphalia as the region of origin of the text and melody .
Lippe-Detmold is a historical name for the Principality of Lippe and its ruling dynasty in contrast to other branches of the House of Lippe ; As a name for the residential city of Detmold , the expression is an ironic caper.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutscher Liederschatz , Leipzig undated, p. 318
- ↑ DeutschesLied.com
- ↑ so also in the folk song archive
- ↑ Deutscher Liederschatz , p. 216
- ↑ cf. Document about an intra-dynastic dispute in 1739
