The pen sways from the beret

From the beret the pen sways is a song that was sung especially in the German youth movement . It is thematically designed as a Landsknechtslied , but has no historical background from this time. The first three stanzas of the song are modified from a poem published by Heinrich von Reder in 1854 , the fourth and fifth stanzas were sealed around 1930. The most famous melody comes from Heinz Thum and was published in 1914; A broken version of the original version is common. In addition to Thum's setting, there are other versions by Egon Kornauth ( six songs for high voice and piano , op. 1, 1911) and Julius Weismann ( three songs for one voice with piano, no. 3, 1899).

The American sociologist Howard P. Becker used the first line in 1949 as the title of his critical history of the German youth movement.

Web links

Wikisource: The spring fluctuates from berets  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carl Woldemar Neumann, Heinrich Reder: Soldiers songs by two German officers . Meidinger Sohn & Cie, Frankfurt am Main 1854, p. 83 ( Google Books ).
2. ^ Walter Gollhardt (Ed.): St. Georg. Songbook of German Youth. Günther Wolff publishing house , Plauen im Vogtland 1935.
3. ↑ Heinz Thum: "The green standards flutter". 10 lute songs . Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1914, p. 3 .
4. ^ Ernst Klusen : German songs . tape 2 . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-458-04827-8 , p. 540 .
5. ↑ Howard Paul Becker: From the beret the pen wavers: The history of the German youth movement . Der Greif, Wiesbaden 1949 (trans. Leda Weller).