Trutz, naked Hans
Trutz, blanke Hans is a ballad by Detlev von Liliencron from 1882/83 and, alongside Pidder Lüng, is probably the most famous poem by this artist.
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Liliencron processed the Rungholt legend , according to which the rich but godless city of Rungholt was destroyed by a storm surge . The Blanke Hans , to which the title refers, is a Frisian name for the North Sea , which the city's inhabitants believe they can defy in their hubris .
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The real place Rungholt went under in the second Marcellus flood in mid-January 1362. It was located near today's Hallig Südfall before Pellworm , where the poet was Hardesvogt in 1882/1883 . From Liliencron's diary entries it emerges that he heard of the Rungholt saga while crossing the ferry from Husum to Pellworm. However, Liliencron himself did not “drive over Rungholt”, but only over a distant sandbank called Rungholtsand .
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- Achim Reichel set the ballad to music on his album Regenballade .
- From 1999 on, the puppeteer and reciter Gerd J. Pohl and the musician Konstantin Gockel set a thematic focus in their program Die Flamme hisses with the ballad .
- In 2006, the youngsters of the music project Junge Dichter und Denker put beats to the ballad and rapped the text on their album Die 1ste (with Thomas D ).
- The German group Santiano processed some slightly modified verses from the ballad in their 2015 song Rungholt on the album Von Liebe, Tod und Freiheit .
- The Frisian pagan metal band Vike Tare released a barely changed version on their album Feed the Flames.
