German poems

statement and provocative poem attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller

legendary medieval figure

cycle of poems by Adalbert von Chamisso, set to song by composers including Robert Schumann

German song

literary work

literary work

Poem by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1944, made a hymn with several melodies

"'" (Deathfugue') is a German language poem written by the Romanian-born poet Paul Celan probably around 1945 and first published in 1948. It is one of his best-known and often-anthologized poems. Despite critics claiming that the lyrical finesse and aesthetic of the poem did not do justice to the cruelty of the Holocaust, others regard the poem as one that "combines mysteriously compelling imagery with rhythmic variations and structural patterns that are both elusive and pronounced". At the same time it has been regarded as a "masterful description of horror and death in a concentration camp"

2012 prose poem by Günter Grass

The "Ostpreußenlied", also known as "Land der dunklen Wälder" or "Lied auf Ostpreußen" was considered the regional anthem of East Prussia until 1945, when the lands of East Prussia were lost to the Soviet Union, and the Polish People's Republic. However even after the destruction of East Prussia, the song is still used to this day.

German local anthem of Schleswig-Holstein

epic poem by Christoph Martin Wieland

"Elfenlied" (, "fairy song") is the conventional title of a 1780 poem by Goethe, and of a later (c. 1830) poem by Eduard Mörike (and of their various respective adaptations to music).

poem by Matthias Claudius

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poem by Kurt Schwitters

Christian lullaby

song