Resolution of the Communards
Resolution (also: In recitals or resolution of the Communards ) is the title of a poem by Bertolt Brecht from the Svendborger Gedichte cycle (1926–1939). The poem, written in 1934, refers to the Paris Commune . Like other texts by Brecht, it was set to music by Hanns Eisler , and it was included in the songs of the workers' movement and in cabaret programs. It was first printed in Madrid in 1937 , edited by Ernst Busch . In 1949 Brecht took the contents of the poem into his play The Days of the Commune on the Paris Commune. For inclusion in the Hundred Poems Collection (1951), Brecht extended the title to Resolution of the Communards .
The bands and singers Oktoberklub , National Affairs, Third Choice , Freygang , Lerryn (= Diether Dehm ), The Butterflies , Cochise and Heiter bis Wolkig play or played this song regularly at their concerts.
Web links
- Recording of the Regensburg song group ( MP3 ; 3.94 MB)
- Lyrics in the version by Hanns Eisler
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fritz Hennenberg (Ed.): The great Brecht song book. Volume 3. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-518-02416-7 , p. 451m ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ^ National Affairs
- ^ German songwriters - Songfestival Ingelheim 1974
The word sequence "In consideration" at the beginning of the stanzas reminds of the Eisenach program (1869) of the Social Democratic Labor Party, whose paragraphs 5 and 6 of Section II also begin with "In consideration".