Der Wanderer

The stranger Evening Song is the title of a poem published in 1821 by Georg Philipp Schmidt from Luebeck. Edited it was in the context of a poem bands Schmidt from Luebeck by Heinrich Christian Schumacher. The plant is also known under the title The Wanderer, Franz Schubert, where his setting of the poem. The melancholy poem belongs, not least thanks to the much-quoted final line and the Schubert setting, the most famous poems of German Romanticism.

• 3.1 The Wanderer
• 3.2 Wanderer Fantasy

Text

" I come from the mountains The Dämm'rung is on forest and ocean; I look after the Evening Star The home is so far away, so far away. It spans the night her blue tent High above God's wide world, The world is so full and I alone, The world is so big and I so small. It is located below the house at home, And go peacefully in and out; But alas, the stranger walking stick If country up and down country. It seems in many loving Thal The morning and the evening beam, I walk quietly and little glad and sighs for ever ask: Where? The sun seems to me dull and cold, The flower withered, life old, And what they're talking about, deaf sound, I am a stranger everywhere. Where are you, my Promised Land, Wanted, suspected and never knew? The land, the land green with hope so, The land where my roses bloom? Where my dreams transform are going, Where my dead rise again, The country that speaks my language And everything has what I lack? I sense time and space, I ask quietly Flower and tree; It brings the air to breath back: "There, where you are not, is happiness! ".

Analysis

Formal Aspects

The poem consists of eight stanzas of four lines of iambic vierhebigen. Schmidt von Lübeck has consistently pair of rhyme scheme operated.

Substantive aspects

The first stanza begins with the description of a scenic landscape of the soul. In the verses one through five, the melancholy of the lyrical ego is represented. It is driven by a longing for home, but can not exist in the "full" and "big world". Likewise, it distances itself from the company whose speeches appear to him as " deaf sound ", where he also admires the "peaceful" lives of others. His desire makes him a return to the imperfect world impossible, which is why he concludes sadly: "I am a stranger everywhere. ".

The verses six and seven bring the wishes of the lyrical ego of a " promised land ", which he wanted and dreamed in vain to express. In this country, the innermost desires of the lyrical ego manifest.

The final eighth verse expresses the incompatibility of the nature of his inner world with that of the outside world, and ends with the tragic sounding " breath of air ": "There, where you are not, is happiness. "

Importance

The written in a melancholy tone poem is a typical work of German Romanticism. It covers numerous essential motifs of romantic poetry, such as longing, homesickness, loneliness, world-weariness and wandering. The last line of the poem is one of the most famous quotes of romance, as they sententious way, bring the romantic feeling of world-weariness, the desperation due to the inadequacy of the world and the insatiable desire for expression.

Settings of Franz Schubert

The Wanderer

Franz Schubert wrote the poem entitled " The Wanderer " provided for its song - setting and thus weights the migrant subject even more. For his art song Schubert has cut the poem, made ​​slight changes to the text and dissolved the verse structure. The song carries the Schubert Thematic Catalogue number D 493 ( in an earlier version of the directory: D 489 ) and is not to be confused with the song D 649, which is also the title of " The Wanderer " bears, but another poem ( by Friedrich music by Schlegel ).

The song is kept in C-sharp minor. The prelude is characterized by triplets in changing chords and takes the melancholy mood anticipated. The melancholy beginning part is entitled " Very slow" and increases in the transition to describe the " promised land " ( Schubert " beloved country " ) on " Something quicker " to "Quick ". The tragic final part, of course, ends in a major key is to play back a tempo. In addition to these changes in tempo, the piece is also rich in crescendos, decrescendi, dissonances and other dramatized style means.

Wanderer Fantasy

In the four-movement Wanderer Fantasy for Piano Schubert processed the musical and extra-musical themes of his song.