Lützow's Wild Hunt
Lützow’s Wild Hunt (German: Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd) is the title of a patriotic German song and a 1927 German silent war film.
The song
The poem was written by young German poet and soldier Theodor Körner, who served in the Lützow Free Corps during the Wars of Liberation. It was set to music by Carl Maria von Weber and became very popular.
The song praises the deeds of the Free Corps that became an essential part of Germany’s national identity in the 19th century due to its famous members. Besides Körner, “Turnvater” Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, the famous poet Joseph von Eichendorff, the inventor of the kindergarten Friedrich Fröbel, and Eleonore Prochaska, a woman who had dressed as a man in order to join the fight against the French, served in the Corps.
German | English[1] |
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1. Was glänzt dort im Walde im Sonnenschein? |
1. What glistens there in the forest sunshine? |
2. Was zieht dort rasch durch den finsteren Wald |
2. What moves quickly there through the dark forest |
3. Wo die Reben dort glühen, dort braust der Rhein, |
3. Where the grapes glisten there, there roars the Rhine, |
4. Was braust dort im Tale die laute Schlacht, |
4. Why roars there in the valley the loud battle, |
5. Was scheidet dort röchelnd vom Sonnenlicht |
6. What departs there, rattling, from the sunlight, |
7. Die wilde Jagd und die deutsche Jagd |
7. The wild hunt, and the German hunt, |
The tune was adopted as the regimental march of the 1st Surrey Rifles, a Volunteer unit of the British Army.[2]
The movie
Lützow's Wild Hunt | |
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Directed by | Richard Oswald |
Produced by | Richard Oswald |
Written by |
Theodor Körner (poem) Max Jungk |
Starring |
Ernst Rückert Arthur Wellin Mary Kid Paul Bildt |
Music by | Gustav Gold |
Cinematography | Ewald Daub |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Richard-Oswald Film |
Release date | 21 February 1927 |
Country | Germany |
Language |
Silent German intertitles |
The 1927 German silent war film was directed by Richard Oswald[3] and starring Ernst Rückert, Arthur Wellin and Mary Kid. The film’s art direction was by Ernst Stern. It is part of the cycle of Prussian films and portrays the fight of Prussian troops under the command of Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow against the French during the Napoleonic Wars, commemorated in the poetry of Theodor Körner.
Cast
- Ernst Rückert as Theodor Körner
- Arthur Wellin as Major von Lützow
- Mary Kid as Toni Adamberger, Schauspielerin am Burgtheater
- Paul Bildt as Napoleon, Kaiser der Franzosen
- Wera Engels as Eleanore Prochaska, ein Bürgermädchen
- Gerd Briese as Graf von Seydlitz
- Sig Arno as Franz I, Kaiser von Österreich
- Leopold von Ledebur as Goethe
- Albert Steinrück as Beethoven
- Friedrich Kühne as Fürst Metternich
- Harry Nestor as Friedrich Wilhelm III, König von Preußen
- Robert Hartberg as Erzherzog Karl von Österreich
- Carl Zickner as Fouché, Minister von Frankreich
- Eduard von Winterstein as Blücher
- Paul Marx as Hardenberg
- Eugen Jensen as Freiherr vom Stein
- Josef Karma as Direktor des Burgtheaters
- Hugo Döblin as Burgtheaterfaktotum
- Emil Sondermann as Schmierendirektor
- Theodor Burghardt
References
- ↑ Feurzeig, Lisa (ed.). Deutsche Lieder für Jung und Alt. Middleton (Wisconsin): 2002. Page 95.
- ↑ Anon, War Record, p. 14.
- ↑ Prawer p.207
Bibliography
- Anon, A War Record of the 21st London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles), 1914–1919, 1927/Uckfield: Naval & Military, 2003, ISBN 1-843426-19-6.
- Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.