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Banat Poet, Prose Writer
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Müller-Guttenbrunn, Adam |
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(1852–1923) worked for many
years as a theater director and
writer in Vienna. He was in the
forefront of the struggle
against the assimilation of the
Danube Swabians into the
Hungarian ethnic culture, and
for the preservation of the
German cultural life in the
Banat, becoming the speaker and
poet of the Danube Swabians. In
the poem, ‘motherland’ refers to
Germany; ‘fatherland’ refers to
Hungary. Many proponents of an
ethnic Hungarian identity
referred to German-speaking
Banaters as ‘foreigners’. As
used in the poem, both ‘German’
and ‘Swabian’ refer to Banat
Swabians or Danube Swabians in
general.1 |
Well-known
prose-writer of the Swabian ethnic
community in the Banat. Died
in Guttenbrunn (Zabrani) in the
Banat, 1923 in Vienna.
Exhibition to the Memory of
Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn
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Banater
Schwabenlied |
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Song of Banat Swabians
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von Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn
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translated by Nick Tullius
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Es brennt ein Weh, wie
Kindertränen brennen,
wenn Elternherzen hart und stiefgesinnt.
O, daß vom Mutterland uns Welten trennen
und wir dem Vaterland nur Fremde sind.
Von deutscher Erde sind wir
abgeglitten
auf diese Insel weit im Weltenmeer.
Doch wo des Schwaben Pflug das Land
durchschnitten,
wird deutsch die Erde, und er weicht nicht
mehr.
O Heimat, deutschen Schweißes
stolze Blüte,
du Zeugin mancher herben Väternot,
wir segnen dich, auf daß dich Gott behüte,
wir stehn getreu zu dir in Not und Tod!
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There burns a hurt, like
tears of children crying,
When parents’ hearts are like they’re made
of stone.
That from our motherland the worlds do part
us
And we’re called strangers in our
fatherland.
From German soil our
ancestors departed
To this small island in the global sea.
But where a Swabian’s plough the land made
fertile,
The soil is German, and he will not leave.
O homeland, proudest bloom of
German effort,
You witness of our fathers’ hardy deeds,
We bless you so that God may keep you,
We stand in faith with you in life and
death! |
Adam
Müller-Guttenbrunn House
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Adam Müller Guttenbrunn House
email
banater_forum@rdslink.ro
Address: 10-12 Gheorghe Lazar
Street, Timisoara
Photos taken by Jody McKim, May 2004
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Exhibition to the Memory of
Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn
(well-known prose-writer of the
Swabian ethnic community in the
Banat)
Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn,
poet and
theatrical director,
born 1852 died in Guttenbrunn (Zabrani)
in the Banat, 1923 in
Vienna.
We were
greeted by a friendly staff.
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Banater Homes
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Remembering the Baragan Steppe
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Sources:
1Nick
Tullius
2Deutsche
Literatur im Banat (1840-1939) der
Beitrag der Kulturzeitschriften zum
banatschwäbischen Geistesleben. Author:
Engel, Walter. Publisher: Julius Groos
Verlag, Heidelberg, 1982. ISBN-10:
387276280X / ISBN-13: 978-3872762801
[Published by Jody McKim, DVHH.org 10
Nov 2009]
3Antiquariat
Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Einhorn
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