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History. In the text, Arndt asks the German question and answers it by demanding a Greater German nation-state comprising all German -speaking areas in Europe. The song was performed for the first time in Berlin in 1814. [1] As the original tune did not become popular, Gustav Reichardt wrote a new melody in 1825. [2]
Notable work. Des Deutschen Vaterland. Signature. Ernst Moritz Arndt (26 December 1769 – 29 January 1860) was a German nationalist historian, writer and poet. Early in his life, he fought for the abolition of serfdom, later against Napoleonic dominance over Germany. Arndt had to flee to Sweden for some time due to his anti-French positions.
Vaterlandslied (Arndt) The Vaterlandslied (Song of the Fatherland) is a patriotic poem written by Ernst Moritz Arndt in 1812. It is also known by its first line Der Gott, der Eisen wachsen ließ (The God who made iron grow). The song was written to denounce the fact that several German states fought on the side of Napoleon to the detriment of ...
The most famous song of that name, besides Klopstock′s version, is, however, Ernst Moritz Arndt′s ″ Der Gott, der Eisen wachsen ließ ″ (The God who made iron grow), a patriotic anthem written during the Wars of Liberation against Napoleonic France. In the poem he incites his fellow countrymen to fight against the French invaders, and ...
Germania on Guard on the Rhine, Hermann Wislicenus, 1873. " Die Wacht am Rhein " (German: [diː ˈvaxt am ˈʁaɪn], The Watch on the Rhine) is a German patriotic anthem. The song's origins are rooted in the historical French–German enmity, and it was particularly popular in Germany during the Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II.
Ich hab mich ergeben. " Ich hab mich ergeben " ( lit. 'I have surrendered myself' ), originally titled " Gelübde " ("Vow"), is a German patriotic song. The text was written in 1820 by Hans Ferdinand Maßmann. It was one of the unofficial national anthems of West Germany from 1949 until 1952, when the "Deutschlandlied" was officially reinstated ...
The " Festgesang ", also known as the " Gutenberg Cantata ", was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in the first half of 1840 for performance in Leipzig at the celebrations to mark the putative 400th anniversary of the invention of printing with movable type by Johannes Gutenberg. The full title is Festgesang zur Eröffnung der am ersten Tage der ...
Walter W. Arndt. Walter Werner Arndt (May 4, 1916 [1] –February 15, 2011 [2]) was a world-renowned scholar and translator of Russian, German and Polish. At the time of his death, he was the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, of Russian Language and Literature at Dartmouth College. [3] With degrees in business administration ...