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Anonymous Sat Apr 6 07:33:14 2013 No.3632343 [Reply] [Original]

I'm studying German now, could someone recommend me some (famous) German poets?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 07:54:13 2013 No.3632373 If you simply want to get into german language? Rilke should probably be the first on your list.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 07:54:14 2013 No.3632372 I'm sorry, the German language can't make poetry.

>>	noko Sat Apr 6 08:01:13 2013 No.3632374 Goethe Schiller German Romanticism: Novalis (!!!), von Eichendorf, Brentano Hölderling Rilke (boring as fuck) Brecht

Anonymous Sat Apr 6 08:03:13 2013 No.3632375

>>3632372
Ich möchte, wann ich sterbe, wie die lichten
Gestirne schnell und unbewußt erbleichen,
Erliegen möcht’ ich einst des Todes Streichen,
Wie Sagen uns vom Pindaros berichten.

Ich will ja nicht im Leben oder Dichten 5
Den großen Unerreichlichen erreichen,
Ich möcht’, o Freund, ihm nur im Tode gleichen;
Doch höre nun die schönste der Geschichten!

Er saß im Schauspiel, vom Gesang beweget,
Und hatte, der ermüdet war, die Wangen 10
Auf seines Lieblings schönes Knie geleget:

Als nun der Chöre Melodien verklangen,
Will wecken ihn, der ihn so sanft geheget,
Doch zu den Göttern war er heimgegangen.
But: Goethe, Shiller Hölderlin for a start

Anonymous Sat Apr 6 08:04:14 2013 No.3632377

>>3632372
Well, we call ourselves "das Land der Dichter und Denker", "the land of poets and thinkers". There are plenty of famous and important german poets.
Most of all Goethe, of course, who is overrated, but not overrated enough.
But there are also Schiller, Kleist, Fontane, Lessing, Brecht, Novalis, the other anon mentioned Rile...

My personal favorite: Gottfried Benn. Expressionism, early 20th century, pre-WWI. Give him a try.

>>	noko Sat Apr 6 08:06:14 2013 No.3632378 >>3632374 oh shit I forgot Heine :( also Benn is important and maybe Storm

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 08:13:14 2013 No.3632384 >>3632373 yeah I was thinking of getting one of those bilingual ones to practice German

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 08:14:14 2013 No.3632386 If Austrian poets are also accepted try: Nikolaus Lenau Georg Trakl Ingeborg Bachmann Konrad Bayer Ernst Jandl

Anonymous Sat Apr 6 08:25:13 2013 No.3632402

God dammit. I had all this written down and even had half the translation done, but then I accidentaly deleted it. Since I am too lazy to do it again, here, just have the german original:

Gustav Sack - Gott

Aus Furcht geboren und vom Wunsch verschönt,
ein Bild unsrer Vollkommenheit zu malen,
wurdest du Jude und zum Kannibalen,
der eifervoll dem Bruderfraße frönt;

dann nährtest du dich, opferblutgewöhnt,
von unsrer Selbstzerfleischung Folterqualen,
bis deine Wut verdämmerte zum fahlen
Gespenst, das hohl und wimmernd uns umstöhnt:

Oh Ding an sich! Oh Wahrheit! Letzter Grund!
Nun stirbst du - - dennoch fachte dieses Wort
all unsrer Sehnsucht Narrenschmerzen und

Gelüste an und unsre Welt verdorrt
noch in den Dünsten, die dein toter Mund
aushaucht, zu einem runden Narrenort.

I think it is a perfect example to demonstrate how the german language can play with prefixes and composition of different words that is not all that possible in, say, english. That's a reason why I had a hard time translating it. If anyone really wants it I might do it again though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 08:30:13 2013 No.3632413 >>3632373 which collection would you recommend reading first?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 08:36:13 2013 No.3632429 >>3632413 I honestly am not sure. Everything of him serves its purpose. Isn't there some "Rilke - the entire work" collection?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 08:43:13 2013 No.3632440 Do you have a good level of German already? If not, poetry isn't really a good way to practice (I'm not saying it's not fun to read though).

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 09:06:13 2013 No.3632467 Novalis August Stramm Paul Celan

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 12:47:14 2013 No.3632922 holderlin is good he paid attention to Being

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 12:55:13 2013 No.3632961 you definetly have to read stefan zweig. most underated german writing author ever! i recommend starting with the Chess Story

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 12:55:13 2013 No.3632966 Heine is known and suitable for beginners unlike Goethe. Problem is he mostly wrote about love. Novalis poems are suitable too but I wouldn't recommend Heinrich von Ofterdingen for a beginner. Brecht it is if you are a leftist

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 13:09:15 2013 No.3633026 >>3632377 >we call ourselves poets and thinkers >implying not every country does that

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 14:33:13 2013 No.3633187 >>3633026 No idea. Does yours?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 14:34:13 2013 No.3633192 Rilke, Novalis, Holderlin all u need

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 15:00:13 2013 No.3633235 File: 33 KB, 500x333, lit-mishimasword.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3632467 This nigger. Approved.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 15:09:13 2013 No.3633246 Kollegah

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 15:20:13 2013 No.3633266 A couple who haven't been mentioned: Stefan George, Paul Celan

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 15:20:14 2013 No.3633267 Goethe et Schiller

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 6 15:47:45 2013 No.3633351 >>3633246 this Kollegah is probably one of the best poets alive

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