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Als ich mich nach dir verzehrte: Zweiundsiebzig Gedichte von der Liebe
Die schönsten Gedichte über die Liebe aus dem Gesamtwerk von Erich Fried.
Schon in den frühen Gedichtbänden Erich Frieds und auch in seinen streitbaren politischen Sammlungen tauchten immer wieder Liebesgedichte auf, bis schließlich der 1979 erschienene Band Liebesgedichte sich ganz dem Thema widmete und – mit einer Auflage von inzwischen fast einer Viertelmillionen – eine große Leserschaft gewann.
Die Gedichte suchen die heutigen Orte der Liebenden auf, auch wenn sie vom Beton der inneren oder äußeren Landschaften manchmal schon ganz zugeschüttet zu sein scheinen. Freundlich und manchmal heiter beschreiben sie die Gefühle und behutsamen Gespräche außerhalb von Konsum und Medienwirrwarr.
Schon in den frühen Gedichtbänden Erich Frieds und auch in seinen streitbaren politischen Sammlungen tauchten immer wieder Liebesgedichte auf, bis schließlich der 1979 erschienene Band Liebesgedichte sich ganz dem Thema widmete und – mit einer Auflage von inzwischen fast einer Viertelmillionen – eine große Leserschaft gewann.
Die Gedichte suchen die heutigen Orte der Liebenden auf, auch wenn sie vom Beton der inneren oder äußeren Landschaften manchmal schon ganz zugeschüttet zu sein scheinen. Freundlich und manchmal heiter beschreiben sie die Gefühle und behutsamen Gespräche außerhalb von Konsum und Medienwirrwarr.
- GenresPoetryGerman Literature
94 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1990
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About the author
Erich Fried
162 books61 followersErich Fried was an Austrian-born poet, writer and translator of Jewish descent. He initially became known to a broader public in both Germany and Austria for his political poetry, and later for his love poems. As a writer he mostly wrote plays and short novels. He also translated works by different English writers from English into German, most notably works by William Shakespeare.
He was born in Vienna, Austria but fled to England after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938. He settled in London and adopted British Nationality in 1949. His first official visit back to Vienna was in 1962.
During the war, he did casual work as a librarian and a factory hand. He arranged also for his mother to leave Nazi occupied Austria, as well as helping many other Jews to come to the UK. He joined Young Austria, a left-wing emigrant youth movement, but left in 1943 in protest at its growing Stalinist tendencies.
From 1952 to 1968 he worked as a political commentator for the BBC German Service. He translated works by Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas, and Sylvia Plath.
He published several volumes of poetry as well as radio plays and a novel. His work was sometimes controversial, including attacks on the Zionist movement and support for left-wing causes. His work was mainly published in the West, but in 1969, a selection of his poetry was published in the GDR poetry series Poesiealbum, and his Dylan Thomas translations were published in that same series in 1974. The composer Hans Werner Henze set two of Fried's poems for his song-cycle Voices (1973).
In 1982 he regained his Austrian nationality, though he also retained the British nationality he had adopted in 1949. He died of intestinal cancer in Baden-Baden, West Germany, in 1988 and is buried in Kensal Green cemetery, London.
An Austrian literary prize is named after him - the Erich Fried Prize.
Source: wikipedia.com
He was born in Vienna, Austria but fled to England after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938. He settled in London and adopted British Nationality in 1949. His first official visit back to Vienna was in 1962.
During the war, he did casual work as a librarian and a factory hand. He arranged also for his mother to leave Nazi occupied Austria, as well as helping many other Jews to come to the UK. He joined Young Austria, a left-wing emigrant youth movement, but left in 1943 in protest at its growing Stalinist tendencies.
From 1952 to 1968 he worked as a political commentator for the BBC German Service. He translated works by Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas, and Sylvia Plath.
He published several volumes of poetry as well as radio plays and a novel. His work was sometimes controversial, including attacks on the Zionist movement and support for left-wing causes. His work was mainly published in the West, but in 1969, a selection of his poetry was published in the GDR poetry series Poesiealbum, and his Dylan Thomas translations were published in that same series in 1974. The composer Hans Werner Henze set two of Fried's poems for his song-cycle Voices (1973).
In 1982 he regained his Austrian nationality, though he also retained the British nationality he had adopted in 1949. He died of intestinal cancer in Baden-Baden, West Germany, in 1988 and is buried in Kensal Green cemetery, London.
An Austrian literary prize is named after him - the Erich Fried Prize.
Source: wikipedia.com
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April 22, 2019
Erich Fried truly has a way with words and I might need to check out more of his poetry.
January 9, 2016
Liebe bewegt die Menschheit wie kein anderes Thema, die Gedichte sind auf den Punkt gebrachte,
Mikrokosmen von Gefühlswelten, die mehr sagen als viele noch so gute Ratgeber ..kann man immer wieder lesen, und wird dann sofort mit einem Hauch von Liebe, wonnig, bedeckt.
Mikrokosmen von Gefühlswelten, die mehr sagen als viele noch so gute Ratgeber ..kann man immer wieder lesen, und wird dann sofort mit einem Hauch von Liebe, wonnig, bedeckt.
March 6, 2017
Such beautiful, beautiful poems, that are so filled with love and longing. When booksand words make you cry, because they put into words so perfectly how you feel, it is incredible.
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