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Synopsis. A king throws a golden beaker into a whirlpool and promises that the one who can recover it can also keep it. However, none of his knights and pages is willing to do so, and the king has to ask three times before an Edelknecht (squire) finds his courage.
- Schiller and Goethe
- Here and There
- Now and Then
- And
- Fire and Water
- Mouth and Womb
It can only be coincidence, but in 1798 two pairs of major poets published anthologies of their recent work, much of it in ballad form. Wordsworth and Coleridge called their collection (starting with ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’ and ending with ‘Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey’) ‘Lyrical Ballads, with a few other poems’, but the...
Unlike Goethe,Schiller never visited Sicily, so the details of the dangerous waters are a product mostly of imagination. However, there is a story that he did borrow some of Goethe’s books in order to learn the details of the flora and fauna. From our perspective the books may not have been too reliable, since it is unlikely that there was coral of...
It is a strange balladin which most of the verbs are in the present tense. In Goethe’s ‘Der König in Thule’ (which Schiller clearly intended his readers to recall when following this ballad) every main verb is in the past tense. We are used to texts in which the ‘present historic’ is used for emphasis, when a moment in an otherwise past narrative a...
Schiller therefore wants to createa sense of immediacy. This is no conventional narrative with its ‘one day’, ‘then’, ‘after that’, ‘consequently’ etc. The events are linked in the most basic possible way. The word ‘and’ (und) appears no fewer than 83 times (out of a total word count of about 1, 100). This is not to count the echoes of and rhymes w...
Another way of linkingseparate images is more connected with the lyrical than with the narrative element of the ballad form. The most explicit simile in the text develops the ‘connecting’ theme reflected in the repeated use of ‘and’: Und es wallet und siedet und brauset und zischt, Wie wenn Wasser mit Feuer sich mengt Stanza 12 And there is surging...
As noted above, the poet picks up the tension of the whirlpool of Charybdis and the monster Scylla by referring to the orifice as both a mouth and a womb. However, in addition to developing the image of the whirlpool as a mouth (deriving from Homer’s reference to water being regurgitated), Schiller also uses language which sees the same orifice as ...
Aug 1, 2021 · Friedrich Schiller - Der Taucher lyrics (German) + English translation: "Who dares enter this chasm of water, / Is there some brave knight or valiant yo.
Die Ballade Der Taucher verfasste Friedrich Schiller im Balladenjahr 1797 für den von ihm herausgegebenen Musen-Almanach für das Jahr 1798. [1] Sie beschreibt den Wagemut eines Edelknaben, der sich in den als Schlund der Charybdis bezeichneten Meeresstrudel stürzt, um sich den goldenen Becher zu gewinnen, den sein König dort hineingeworfen hat.
Der Taucher, ein mutiger Knappe, stürzt sich zunächst aus Ehrsucht in das tosende Meer. Voller Ehrfucht vor den Gefahren der schrecklichen Untiefe kommt er glücklich wieder. Für die Liebe der Königstochter aber wagt er erneut den Sprung.
Im Juni 1797 begann der Wettstreit im dichten von Balladen zwischen Goethe und Schiller (Balladenjahr), und „Der Taucher“ ist die erste Ballade, die Schiller dichtet. Die Ballade beruht auf einem älteren Sagenstoff.
Den Becher in der Charybde Geheul. "Wer ist der Beherzte, ich frage wieder, Zu tauchen in diese Tiefe nieder?" Und die Ritter, die Knappen um ihn her Vernehmen's und schweigen still, Sehen hinab in das wilde Meer, Und keiner den Becher gewinnen will. Und der König zum drittenmal wieder fraget: "Ist keiner, der sich hinunter waget?"
