Do you have the text of Brecht's poem with singing about the darkness?

[Rabrrrrrr]

I am trying like to hell to find the poem that the lines "will there be singing in the dark times? YEs, there will be singing about the dark times", and it doesn't bloody appear to be on the web at all. If I had a title, it might be more easily found.

Do you have the poem? Could you please post it here? Or a link to the damn thing?

I heard that phrase years ago, and for some reason I decided tonight I wanted to read the whole poem and now I have a big bug in my craw about it and I can't find it and I want to go to bed...

[neweurope]

1. Thought I could help you in a second, but the ...book isn't

where it's supposed to be... The poem is from the cycle "Svendborger Gedichte", "Svendborg poems" which Brecht wrote in exile.
I'm not much help, but maybe this can help you find it.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[JVS]

2. There's a Chadwyck database, but those suck horrendously.

and access costs money, so the best bet is to find a good university library that would probably have a subscription to it and ask them about it.

The alternative is to look it up the old fashioned way in books.

IIRC the university of wisconsin madison's german department has a bit of an online collection hosted at their website, maybe that would help

Here is a different poem for you

Auf nach Mahagonny
Die Luft ist kuehl und frisch
Dort gibt es Pferd- und Weiberfleish
Whisky- und Pokertisch
Shoener gruener Mond von Mahagonny,
leuchte uns!
Denn wir haben heute hier
Unterm Hemde Geldpapier
Fuer ein grosses Lachen deines grossen
dummen Munds.

Auf nach Mahagonny
Der Ostwind, der geht schon
Dort gibt es frischen Fleischsalat
Und keine Direktion
Shoener gruener Mond von Mahagonny,
leuchte uns!
Denn wir haben heute hier
Unterm Hemde Geldpapier
Fuer ein grosses Lachen deines grossen
dummen Munds.

Auf nach Mahagonny
Das schiff wird losgeseilt
Die Zi-zi-zi-zi-zivilis
Die wird uns dort geheilt
Shoener gruener Mond von Mahagonny,
leuchte uns!
Denn wir haben heute hier
Unterm Hemde Geldpapier
Fuer ein grosses Lachen deines grossen
dummen Munds.

[Call Me Wesley]

3. A short poem called 'Motto':

In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956.

Original:

In den finsteren Zeiten
Wird da auch gesungen werden?
Da wird auch gesungen werden.
Von finsteren Zeiten.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. That's the whole thing, eh?

Here and I had thought it was much longer than just the lines that get quoted often --

thank you very much!! Now I have a title AND know the whole poem!

:yourock::yourock::yourock::yourock::yourock:

[CBHagman]

5. Brecht after breakfast.

Just what I needed this morning! Thank you.

[Burma Jones]

6. And this is yet another reason to be on DU

Where else are you going to get Brecht in the Morning.....

[CBHagman]

7. Sounds like my kind of radio program!

I'm suddenly seized by the image of BB in a studio, maybe joined by Hanns Eisler or Peter Lorre...