In Zeiten der Veränderung

Poems in drei Sprachen

Cecilia Wassermann

• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9783752674675
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783754336298
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Thematisch lasst sich das Werk in zwei großen Bereichen unterteilen. Einige Gedichte zeigen einen sozialkritischen Charakter, andere sind Liebesgedichte. Viele der englischen Gedichte richten sich an einer nahestehenden Person, die kein Deutsch versteht. Diese Gedichte können als Liebesbriefe verstanden haben. Andere Poems sind zu therapeutischen Zwecken geschrieben worden. Die Lyrik verwendet zahlreiche Symbole und zeigt leichte Anlehnung an Gonzo-Journalismus. Die melancholisch gestimmte Lyrik ist durchzogen von verschieden Motive wie Kritik an technischen Fortschritt und die damit verbundene Abstumpfung der Gesellschaft, Emanzipation der Frauen, das ewige Auf und Ab der Liebe, Leistungsdruck und Wunsch nach Anerkennung, Klimawandel, oder Migration gesehen als Chance für einen neuen Anfang Europas. Insbesondere die Sozialkritik sowie auch die Verarbeitung sexistischer Erfahrungen sind nicht auf Deutschland sondern auf ganz Europa zu beziehen. Besonders ins Auge fallen eine Abwandlung des Märchens -Allerleihrauh- der Gebrüder Grimm, zwei Gebete und ein Gedicht geschrieben für die Eltern auf Rumänisch.

Appearence * a fairy tale

A kingdom palace rises in the canyon,

Only the forest and the river are his companion.

In old times from people forgotten,

A king locks in a fortress his daughter.

The princess walks through the garden alone,

Her eyes sadly follow a fire dragon.

Since the lovely wife of the king died,

The king looks now for a new bride.

Together with the queen, her ring disappeared

And the king declare up to the frontier:

“The one who the lost ring will wear,

This one the crown too will bear.”

Next day,

The dragon promises the princess freedom,

If she wears the ring on her finger.

The naive girl trusts the dragons words,

Without knowing who he actually was.

The animal in the air two times spins,

And suddenly he becomes the king.

Into an abyss falls the young bride,

Nightmares torture her day and night.

The king asks her, to tell him her price:

“One beautiful dress of sunshine and stars.”

Next morning the dress was already done,

And the princess fell sick to bed like a dead one.

A week before the wedding day came,

During the night the princess was gone.

She took only the dress, the poor one,

And she left her house and everyone,

Walking by night and hiding by day,

Until she to the next realm came.

One morning the prince in his garden he saw,

A stinky dirty animal with a claw.

He called the gardener and asked him angry:

“What is this here for a beast, I wish to know?”

“This is only a baby of a kind of animal.

O Sire please forgive my courage,

I found it ill and tremblend in snow,

It is not a danger, it is only savage,

I put it in work and give it some forage.”

“We have a feast within three days in our land,

I don´t want that this animal around to stand,

Or your head will be where now is your hand!”

“Sire your wish will be done,

I promise, I will hide the animal from everyone.”

To the party many guests came along.

The prince called the barber to style his hair,

But the barber was ill in those days.

And the girl went to prince this him to say.

With fur her body was dressed,

When inside of his rooms she shy stepped:

“Sire, I come to you to tell that the barber is sick.”

“You, with your dirty presence to disturb Me dare?

And do you see now my anger, and you are still here?

Disappear from my eyes right away!”

And the girl let her head droop and went away.

The first feast at night began.

The woman the beautiful dress put on,

And glittering like the moon to party she came.

At once when the prince she saw,

He fell like drunk in love with her,

Dancing together all night in glow.

When midnight came, disappeared the girl,

And the prince remained in the ball-room alone,

With other women he didn’t dance anymore.

Next day the prince called the tailor in his hall,

To tailor for the next feast his new shoes and suit,

But the tailor became sick in the last minute.

Again went the girl to the prince,

To tell him about the tailor’s disease.

The prince received an epileptic fit,

And let the girl throw into the pit.

The second night of feast came,

But the prince was all time alone,

Cause the beautiful girl didn’t appear anymore.

Next day the girl from the cell returned,

She took the beautiful dress and put it on,

And went to the ...

Table of contents

• Inhaltsverzeichnis
• Vorwort
• Maria
• Gedicht
• Soulmate
• Winter
• Appearence * a fairy tale
• In love
• Der Streit
• Saturn meets Venus
• Call for women!
• Emptiness
• To my husband
• The beggar
• Der Bettler (deutsche Variante)
• Narcissus
• Hope
• The Star
• Call for some men!
• Beauty
• Die Schönheit (deutsche Variante)
• Words between two lovers
• Seasons
• Happiness?
• Thoughts on Eminescu
• Prayer
• Genesis of a dying princess
• Europa (deutsche Variante)
• Dancing
• Der Wald
• Ilusions … poetry
• Gedicht für meine Eltern
• Poezie pentru părinți (Gedicht für meine Eltern auf Rumänisch)
• Impressum