The following poem/song seems so timely .. so contemporary...and proof of the truism that "plus ça change plus ça reste la même chose"...
The site of Dr. Ludwig is my go-to place for solid, well researched and beautifully explained authentic German Volksmusik. While Dr. Ludwig's commentary is usually very restraint and "sachlich", this one, he confesses, is one of his "all time favourite German songs".
I must say, on only just discovering the song, perhaps due in part to Dr. Ludwig's choice of imagery, it gave me the goose pimples and as I write this, it is still lingering under my skin.
Dr. Ludwig writes:
A poem from Friedrich Hielscher, which became famous within the neopagan scene later on. This is one of my all time favourite German songs, so I decided to make a video completely with video clips. In those scenes you see the fight of Arminius/ Hermann against the Romans. The song itself is sung by the band Werkraum.
The name of Friedrich Hielscher, being one of many empty spaces in my education , I looked him up via the often not very reliable, but in this case not too dangerous short cut of Wiki Leaks:
According to them, he was a :
"...German intellectual involved in the Conservative Revolutionary movement during the Weimar Republic and in the German resistance during the Nazi era. He was the founder of an esoteric or Neopagan movement, the Unabhängige Freikirche, which he headed from 1933 until his death..."
German lyrics:
Wir rufen deine Wölfe
und rufen deinen Speer,
wir rufen alle Zwölfe
vom Himmel zu uns her.
Wir rufen Dich vor Allen.
Nun kommt die wilde Jagd,
nun lasst das Horn erschallen,
um keinen Toten klagt.
Der Feind ist schon verfallen,
eh dass der Morgen tagt.
Wir rufen Deine Wölfe ...
Das Wild hat keinen Namen,
der Feind hat kein Gesicht,
das Aas hat keinen Samen,
gerecht ist das Gericht.
Die Ernte ist vergangen,
die Spreu ist täglich feil,
die Raben jetzt verlangen
ihr angemessnes Teil,
die Jagd hat angefangen:
nun hält uns, Herr, dein Heil.
Wir rufen Deine Wölfe ...
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