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Wanderer's Nightsong. " Wanderer's Nightsong " (original German title: " Wandrers Nachtlied ") is the title of two poems by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Written in 1776 (" Der du von dem Himmel bist ") and in 1780 (" Über allen Gipfeln "), they are among Goethe's most famous works. Both were first edited together in his 1815 ...
The " Song of the Bell " (German: "Das Lied von der Glocke", also translated as " The Lay of the Bell ") is a poem that the German poet Friedrich Schiller published in 1798. It is one of the most famous poems of German literature and with 430 lines one of Schiller's longest. In it, Schiller combines a knowledgeable technical description of a ...
Erlkönig. " Erlkönig " is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It depicts the death of a child assailed by a supernatural being, the Erlking, a king of the fairies. It was originally written by Goethe as part of a 1782 Singspiel, Die Fischerin . "Erlkönig" has been called Goethe's "most famous ballad". [ 1]
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine ( German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaɪnə] ⓘ; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[ a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present ...
Engraving of the confession in poetic form presented at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. " First they came ... " ( German: Zuerst kamen sie ...) is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). It is about the silence of German intellectuals and ...
Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust. Wanke nicht, mein Vaterland. Wäre Gesanges voll unser Mund. Weißt du, wie viel Sternlein stehen. Weite Räume meinen Füßen. Das Weizenkorn muss sterben. Weltende (Jakob van Hoddis) Wenn ich, o Schöpfer, deine Macht. What Must Be Said.
" Die Lösung" ([diː ˈløːzʊŋ], "The Solution") is a famous satirical German poem by Bertolt Brecht about the East German uprising of 1953. Written in mid-1953, it is critical of the government and was not published at the time. [1] [2] [3] It was first published in 1959 in the West German newspaper Die Welt.