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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.
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]
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.
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...
"Wir schaffen das" was frequently used by critics of Merkel's refugee policy, often amending the phrase to "wir schaffen das nicht" (English: "we can't do it"). [18] In September 2015 Horst Seehofer , the then- Minister-President of Bavaria , was quoted as saying "wir schaffen das nicht", criticising Merkel's sentiments and stating that he felt ...
"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.
It was the fifth track and the second single from their 1988 album Das ist nicht die ganze Wahrheit.... It is an ironic ode to the city of Westerland . It was also released on Die Ärzte's first maxi single , which had the same cover as the single but tracks different from the maxi LP .
On vinyl versions of Jazz ist anders and Am Ende der Sonne though, the hidden tracks are not lost, but put after the last track. The album features many film and TV samples. Samples are used on tracks 1, 4, 5, [ 5 ] 8, 10, 12, 13, 16, and on the hidden track.