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BRECHT Bertolt (1898 - 1956)

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BRECHT Bertolt (1898 - 1956)
autograph poem, Nordlandschaft, [1920]| half-page folio| in German.
Rare early poem.
This manuscript remained unknown to Brecht's publishers. The poem was collected under the title Nordlandssage in the Complete Works from an incorrect typescript: Werke. Große kommentierte Berliner und Frankfurter
Ausgabe, Bd. XIII (Gedichte 3), p. 193 (commentary p. 469).
The poem has nine lines, the last separated from the other eight by a large blank.
"Sie zogen von den Bergen groß und fett mit roten Haaren
Eherne Waffen in den großen Händen die selbst wie ungeschlachte Tiere waren. [...]
Abends wenn der Wind im dunklen Wipfel der Pappeln sauste redeten sie allesamt vom blauen Meere.
Darin ersaufen sie bald bei Kupferneumond wie zu schwere Tiere".
Free translation of the beginning of this Northern Landscape: "They came down from the mountains big and fat with red hair / bronze weapons in big hands / who were themselves like ungainly beasts...