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The "Solidaritätslied" ("Solidarity Song") is a revolutionary working song written between 1929 and 1931 by Bertolt Brecht, and set to music by Hanns Eisler.It was written against the background of the Great Depression, the Great War (1914–18), and the social issues caused by the Industrial Revolution that were explored in Brecht's 1932 film Kuhle Wampe in which the song also appeared.
The first line, "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt" ('Germany, Germany above all, above all in the world'), was an appeal to the various German monarchs to give the creation of a united Germany a higher priority than the independence of their small states.
In 1964, Petula Clark recorded the English rendition Thank you, which was released as a single in the UK. "Danke für diesen guten Morgen" has been included in the hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch as EG 334. [1] "Danke" has been called the best-known German sacred song, according to Jörg Döring who analyzed its rhetoric. [1]
Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa – das Gespenst des Kommunismus: "A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism" – The Communist Manifesto; Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!: "Workers of the world, unite!" – The Communist Manifesto; Gott würfelt nicht: "God does not play dice" – Einstein
The original song's refrain (1932) was Denn heute gehört uns Deutschland / und morgen die ganze Welt ("For today, Germany is ours / and tomorrow the whole world"). In a later version (1937) this was mitigated for the Hitler Youth to Denn heute da hört uns Deutschland...
dass ein gutes Deutschland blühe wie ein andres gutes Land. Dass die Völker nicht erbleichen wie vor einer Räuberin, sondern ihre Hände reichen uns wie andern Völkern hin. Und nicht über und nicht unter andern Völkern woll'n wir sein von der See bis zu den Alpen, von der Oder bis zum Rhein. Und weil wir dies Land verbessern,
"Morgen!" ("Tomorrow!") is the last in a set of four songs composed in 1894 by the German composer Richard Strauss.It is designated Opus 27, Number 4.. The text of this Lied, the German love poem "Morgen!", was written by Strauss's contemporary, John Henry Mackay, who was of partly Scottish descent but brought up in Germany.
"Freiheit", also known as "Spaniens Himmel" or "Die Thälmann-Kolonne", is a song written in 1936 by Gudrun Kabisch and Paul Dessau, German anti-fascists. The song was written for the International Brigades but later became a popular standard in Germany and in American communist and folk music communities. The title translates as "Freedom" in ...