My blue piano (poem)

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My blue piano is a poem by Else Lasker-Schüler from the time after she emigrated from Germany.

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The house in which Else Lasker-Schüler grew up

Else Lasker-Schüler wrote this poem while in exile in Zurich . It was published on February 7, 1937 in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . During this time , the poet was friends with Eduard Korrodi , the head of the NZZ's feature pages.

The first verse “I have a blue piano at home” points to the past despite its grammatical present tense. The fourth verse makes this clear; which alludes to the brutalization of the world by the National Socialists , from whom she had to flee as a Jew .

The importance of the blue piano is explained by a look at the poet's diary in Zurich:

I still have all of my toys from before, including my blue doll piano.

This piano is not intended for making music, but is a symbol of their childhood.

The poem gives its name to the volume of poetry of the same name, My Blue Piano , which Lasker-Schüler published in Palestine in 1943 as the last volume of poetry. It contains the poem for the first time in book form.

literature

  • Walter Hinck : Stations of German Poetry. From Luther to the present day - 100 poems with interpretations . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000. ISBN 3-525-20810-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ quoted in Walter Hinck: "Stations of German Poetry"

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