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Heinrich Heine would have been a hell of a guy to know in college

#like he probably would have been awful and I am very grateful for my friends hashtag myfriends #but still one wonders #monrien

Rip Marius Pontmercy you would have loved Die Grenadiere by Heinrich Heine. In fact you probably could have read it since it came out a few years before before your Napoleon phase and you can read German.

#marius pontmercy #heinrich heine #napoleon bonaparte #die grenadiere #les miserables #sherb's sub sub library #monrien

Is it necessary to listen to all the Child Ballads to produce a competent translation of Heine's Lorelei (such as I have yet to encounter in English?) Absolutely not. Is it helpful to familiarize oneself with the anglophone balladic idiom in order to understand the role of the Germanic one in conversation with Heine's work? Probably. Am I looking for an excuse to listen to more Child Ballads? Yes, definitely.

#truly this is how i think the waves will devour/both skipper and bark by and by #die Lorelei #heinrich heine #translation #child ballads #monrien #übertrager übertreter

Jeffrey L. Sammons on Heinrich Heine's participation in the Verein:

#you can tell this author is a professor from how he writes about Heine's student days #heinrich heine #heine #monrien

In a similar vein to this post (albeit not a reblog of it) I think I finally get why people like the Lorelei as a poem... it's because the danger is recursive isn't it?

The speaker begins the poem by perceiving his grief and failing to interpret it, then goes into rapturous detail about the appearance of the river and the rock and the maiden, only to equivocate a little about how the fairy tale ends ("ich glaube..." as a qualifier rather than a confirmation) because he wasn't paying attention to the boatman either. He too only saw the girl.

In the end he understands that the Lorelei "with her singing" has aggrieved not only the doomed boatman but the narrator himself. But it takes the recapitulation of the whole fairy-tale for him to understand what "die Lorelei," both the woman and the poem, have done to him.

I first heard this poem when I was 12. How did that just fly over my head in the decade since?

#sorry herr heine I didn't realize...#this all goes double when it's being performed in silcher's arrangement #I think graduation is forcing me to reevaluate all my ideas about “famous” german-language media #heinrich heine #heine #die lorelei #monrien #songs within words #not being on boats

The other thing about The Ancient Law is that after the Romeo and Juliet scene these two jackasses taunt Baruch by calling him "der Romeo vom Stamme Asra." This is a reference to Heinrich Heine's poem "Der Asra," about a slave from a fictional Yemeni tribe doomed to perish when they love. Only that reference doesn't make any sense.

Now, on one hand bigotry (e.g. this instance of antisemitism) is inherently arbitrary and nonsensical. But in the context of the film it's also presented as a joke and I can't tell what the punchline was meant to be. Like: is it just orientalism? Are they implying that Baruch is down bad for the lead actress, like the character in the poem? And why are they citing Heine of all people? Admittedly he's said some pretty rough stuff in his time but a lot of his contemporaries were more vicious and the comment implies that the speakers are fans/readers of Heine's. Maybe it's just flying over my USAmerican head and I should be glad I don't get it but if any of my beloved mutuals understand what's going on I'd love to know.

#this is the problem with being bekannt im deutschen land i guess #a few assholes in austria-hungary are going to be pretty weird about you too #I guess on the meta level there's a joke about two guys quoting heine in order to be antisemitic #theodor adorno I am stealing your colorful neckties until you give me a source for the 'dichter unbekannt' anecdote #nothing to do with your philosophy it's just you're the earliest reference I've found #das alte gesetz #the ancient law #heinrich heine #der asra #monrien

I fear I would do this

(Heinrich Heine: a Modern Biography, p. 47)

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A metaphor so good I need to share it with my beloved mutuals

Can you tell this man is in academia

#you can use it for the scholarship of any discipline you want...#sociology... psychology... engineering... linguistics...#...early 19th century Jewish studies...#monrien

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