The Great Gay-Jewish Poetry Brawl of 1829

[Karl Rand]

Interesting when anyone Jewish acts out homophobia. From my personal experience, and from numerous anecdotes over many decades, Jewish males, especially when young, are ( as we say in Oz) 'up each other like rats up a drainpipe'.
I’m somewhat dissapointed though to learn Heine was inclined towards such attacks having been an admirer of his poetry as used by Schumman and Shubert.

Aus meinen Tränen sprießen
Viel blühende Blumen hervor,
Und meine Seufzer werden
Ein Nachtigallenchor.

Und wenn du mich lieb hast, Kindchen,
Schenk’ ich dir die Blumen all’,
Und vor deinem Fenster soll klingen
Das Lied der Nachtigall. From my tears spring forth
many a flower in bloom,
and my sighs become
a choir of nightingales.

And if you love me, little one,
I will give you all the flowers,
and at your window shall sound
the song of the nightingale. Back to Song List

Little one? Maybe von Platen should have accused Heine of being a pedophile?

I’ve been a lover of German art song (Lieder) since forever but resist the tempation to post examples on music sections of the forum as even most classical music lovers find it heavy going.



I’m not so sure I detect the odour of marxist analysis in that essey but then I’m no expert in dialectical materialism.