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Clemens Brentano

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Clemens Brentano

Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano de La Roche (sau Klemens Brentano) (n. 9 septembrie 1778 - d. 28 iulie 1842) a fost poet, dramaturg și prozator german, membru al cercului romanticilor din Heidelberg.

Opera

Poezia

• 1854: Poezii ("Gedichte")
• 1912: Romanțele mătăniilor ("Romanzen vom Rosenkranz")

Romane

• 1801: Godwi ("Godwi oder Das steinerne Bild der Mutter"), unicul său roman complet; aici apare pentru prima dată în literatura germană personajul mitic Loreley;
• 1849: "Der schiffbrüchige Galeerensklave vom todten Meer", roman neterminat.

Povești și nuvele

• 1805-1816: Gockel, Hinkel și Gackeleia ("Gockel, Hinkel und Gackeleia"), poveste
• 1806-1808: Cornul fermecat al băiatului ("Des Knaben Wunderhorn"), împreună cu Achim von Arnim, antologie de poezii și povești populare germane;
• 1817: Povestea viteazului Gaspard și a frumoasei Annette, cea mai cunoscută nuvelă a sa;
• 1817: Cele trei nuci ("Die drei Nüsse"), nuvelă;
• 1817: "Die mehreren Wehmüller und ungarischen Nationalgesichter", nuvelă;
• 1826: Basmele Rinului ("Rheinmärchen");
• 1838: Istoria viteazului Kasperl și a frumoasei Annerl ("Geschichte vom braven kasperl und dem schönen Annerl")
• 1844: Basme italiene ("Italienische Märchen").

Dramaturgia

• 1804: Ponce de Leon, comedie în patru acte după un model spaniol
• 1817: Întemeierea orașului Praga ("Die Gründungs Prags"), dramă istorică.

Eseuri

• 1807: Istoria fantastică a ceasornicarului Bogs... ("Entweder wunderbare Geschichte von Bogs dem Uhrmacher..."), împreună cu Joseph Görres), satiră;
• 1818: Cronica unui școlar peregrin ("Die Chronika des fahrenden Schülers");
• 1831: Surorile medicale în serviciul săracilor (împreună cu Joseph Görres), tratat;
• 1833: Patimile domnului nostru Isus Hristos ("Das bittere Leiden unsers Herrn Jesu Christi");
• 1852: Scrieri ("Gesammelte Schriften"), culese de fratele său, Christian Brentano)

Bibliografie

• Danțiș, Gabriela - Scriitori străini, Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică București, 1981

Legături externe

• de Opera lui Clemens Brentano la Project Gutenberg
• en Brentano la Catholic Encyclopedia

[Nicoleta Cimpoae]

Near Bacharach on the Rhine
lived a witch.
She was so beautiful and fine,
and seduced many hearts.
And she brought many men
to shame all around her;
From her love's bindings
there was no rescue.
The bishop wished to summon
her for a spiritual accounting
where she would plead,
so firm was his resolve.
He said to her calmly:
"You poor Lore Lay!
Who has seduced you into
such evil witchcraft?"
"Lord Bishop, let me die!
I am weary of life,
because all who my eyes see
must be despoiled!
My eyes are two flames,
my arms a magic wand.
Oh, lie me down in the flames,
oh, break you crosier [on me]."
"I cannot condemn you to damnation,
because you have admitted to me
why my own heart already burns
in your flames.
I cannot break my crosier on you,
you beauteous Lore Lay!
I must therefore
break my own heart in two!"
"Lord Bishop, do not so unhappily
mock me with your arms,
and pray for my salvation
to your beloved God!
I must not live longer,
for I love no more.
Death that you can give me
is the reason I came to you!
My treasures have deceived me,
so skillfully have they
been drawn away from me,
drawn into a strange land.
My eyes so soft and wild,
my cheeks so red and white,
my words so still and mild,
These are my magic spells.
I must myself despoil,
my heart gives me such pain;
From pain I would die,
when I see my own image.
So let me find my right path,
to die like a Christ,
then all must pass away,
because He will not be with me!"
He fetched three knights:
"Bring her to a cloister!
Go, Lore Lay -- God has commanded
your enchanted lust!
You shall become a nun,
a nun in black and white,
to become ready here on earth
for your final end!"
To the cloister she was being taken
by all three knights,
with the beauteous Lore Lay so sad in their company.
"Oh knights, let me go
to the top of this great cliff,
I would once more look on
my love's castle.
I would once more look
deep into the Rhine
and then go to the cloister
to become God's bride."
The cliff is so steep,
so precipitous is its wall,
and yet she climbed into the heights,
to stand there at the top.
The three knights
tied their horses at the bottom,
and clambered up the heights
towards the top of the cliff.
The maiden spoke: "There comes
a boat along the Rhine;
there is the boat stands
one who will be my love!
My heart will become merry,
as he will be my love!"
As so she leaned down
and leapt into the Rhine.
The knights must themselves die,
not able to return;
She did all despoil
without priest or grave.
Who has sung this song?
A sailor on the Rhine,
and always it has echoed
from the Three-Knights-rock:
Lore Lay! Lore Lay! Lore Lay!
As had my three....
This is an An old german ballad by the poet "Clemes Brentano" (1778-1842) about the mystical figure of the Loreley a beautiful sorceress who after she was left by her lover brought disease to all the men around her. Everyone who saw her fell in love with her and had to suffer endless pain. Realizing this she goes to the bishop asking him to judge her and to give her death by fire. But even the bishop can not judge her because he falls in love to her too. He sends three knights to bring her to a monastery on the way there they pass a big rock and she says "please knights let me climb up so i can have a last look on my lovers castle". Reaching the top she looks down and she sees a fisherboat on the Rheinriver and she says the one in the boat must be my beloved leaning her body to far out she falls down the rock and dies. And the three knights have to die too because they cant climb down ...