Wanderlust
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| The wanderer over the Nebel sea |
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| Caspar David Friedrich , 1818 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 94.8 x 74.8 cm |
| Kunsthalle Hamburg |
Wanderlust describes the desire on walking , the constant inner drive, to walk the nature and the world beyond or close to the home to open up.
Details
In modern German, the term was strongly influenced by Romanticism : "Hiking, yes, hiking is my passion" - as in the student wandering songs by Joseph von Eichendorff and later by Joseph Victor von Scheffel . In the walking clubs of the 19th century and in the wanderer after 1900 it became institutionalized and songs and literature of the youth movement so popular that it as Germanism has also been adopted in English and detected there since about 1,902th Wanderlust has also been adopted as a term for wanderlust in other languages such as Italian, Danish or Irish.
Literary examples
Scheffel's famous Frankenlied may serve as an illustration. His first stanza reads:
- Well run, the air is fresh and pure,
- Anyone who sits for a long time has to rust.
- The most beautiful sunshine
- Let's taste heaven
- Now I have enough staff and religious dress
- The traveling scholars:
- I want the beautiful summer time
- Go to the land of Franconia!
Another example is the folk song The hiking is the miller's lust by Wilhelm Müller , where "hiking" here means the years of hiking (waltz) instead of leisure activities :
- Hiking is the miller's delight.
- Hiking is the miller's delight!
- The Wah-hand-der!
- That can't be a real miller
- He never thought of hiking.
The chorus of the beat song Wanderlust from the album Around the Sun (2004) by the US rock band REM reads:
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See also
- Hiking , wanderlust , hiking motif
- List of German words in English
- Wandering boy , walking stick
- Walks through the Mark Brandenburg , a volume of short stories by Theodor Fontane
literature
- Wolfgang Albrecht, Hans-Joachim Kertscher (ed.): Wanderzwang - Wanderlust. Forms of spatial and social experience between the Enlightenment and early industrialization (= Hallesche's Contributions to the European Enlightenment; 11), Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-484-81011-4