The German lyrics are wrong, opposite to Brecht's original text, regarding when the boat "glides from the shore" (losgemacht) or is tied up (festgemacht). Brecht explained it once "A boat has to be tied up before you can f*** in it." The subtitles compound the problem by translating both festgemacht and losgemacht as "gliding from the shore"!
Yeah, I’ve noticed that Brecht’s publishers (Suhrkamp) seem to be particularly aggressive about protecting the copyright on his works. I can give three sources, which give “losgemacht” (set free) for the first two verses and “festgemacht” (tied up) for the third verse: Die Gedichte von Bertolt Brecht in einem Band, Suhrkamp ISBN 3-518-02269-5 Bertolt Brechts Dreigroschenbuch, Suhrkamp ISBN 3-518-36587-8 And highly recommended!!! Brecht Liederbuch, Suhrkamp ISBN 3-518-37716-7 The comment from Brecht about how the boat needs to be tied up is from Christopher Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind, North Point Press ISBN 0-374-52036-4 (Christopher made the same mistake in translation about tying up the boat or letting it float).
Douglas Krueger so I spent the whole night and I found the songtexte and it says festgemacht! And well now I have the lyrics of all the songs hahha thank u my friend
Could she have ever guessed she would perish as a starving slave laborer in a Stalinist gulag at the age of 41? So sad. As for the song, I love it. It has a peculiar blend of innocence and pouting, decadent Weimar trashiness that exemplified director Pabst's two films with Louise Brooks.
Lotte Lenya did not perish in a Stalisnist Gulag. She em emigrated to to US and starred in a number of musicals as well as a part a 'bad guy' in a James Bond movie.
She sounds like Madeline Kahn playing Lili Von Shtupp in Blazing Saddles. I wonder if Madeline Kahn used her performance in the Three Penny Opera for her character.
+Sue Everson No, that was based strictly on Marlene Dietrich. By the way, Carola Neher fled Nazi Germany for Moscow believing she would be safe (safer?) with fellow Communists. How wrong she was. Stalinist monsters arrested her, found her "guilty", and sent her to the Gulag. She died there, supposedly, of typhus. Brecht took the same escape route and somehow, much to his dishonor, ended up in Hollywood USA.
+Mark Robinson By the way, everyone who has mentioned Molotov, should read about Beria, a fellow Georgian monster. This is not in anyway a criticism of Georgians. I have visited there many times, and the people are for the most part gracious and kind.
Живи и дай жить другим, такой должна быть идеология. В СССР и нацистской Германии идеологии были другие. Сейчас эмигрировать в Россию я бы тоже никому не посоветовал. Гулаг поднимает голову.
Molotov was not even the same species as Carola Neher and her husband. Totally different psychological type - a bureaucrat and not a rebel. Chosen as one of the killers because of his obedience to authority. Can't compare such a creature to unbreakable revolutionaries
