I am trying to do a project showing the commonness of the war in the trenches between German and British poetry but I am having a difficult time finding German poetry that's been translated (properly, not google). My email is in my profile.

Thanks Ed

BansheeOne is a SF member from Germany but he hasn't posted since December.

http://www.worldwar1.com/sfgp1e.htm

Your post does not make clear if you need to have some poems translated from German into English, or you WANT some German poems that have been translated into English.

My link is to a German poem translated into English.

tac, pedant in five languages.

I need some translated into English or ones that have been translated already. I found a few but nothing that fit what I am looking for. I want to do a comparison to show that the soldiers of both sides had the same experience. The plan is the class will be split in half one side will will a German writing and the other a English writing. Using small post it notes they will make notes of what strikes them as being a personal feeling or experience. Then I will have them remove their sticky notes and hold on to them. Then the sides will change poems and see if they can stick their notes on the opposites sides writings to see if they can find shared experiences or common feelings.

How about a book on the subject, "Poetry of the First World War."
Poetry of First World War

SB

I looked at that on amazon a few days ago but it felt like it was mostly English.

I have 'The Lost Voices of World War 1', by Tim Cross - 'an international anthology of writers, poets and playwrights'. all of whom died in the war. Each has a critical biography and selection of work. Where the author is not English speaking the original is given with a translation. Some of the German language authors are Austrian.

Although you may not find a German Wilfred Owen there are some interesting pieces.

One of them - Ernst Stadler - was killed in the 1st Battle of Ypres, so he may be buried in Langemarck.

Available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.co...l/dp/0877452644

tac

Hey Tac, I tried that link and searching it on Amazon to no luck. Could you please send me the link.

Thanks

Thanks Got it, will be here on Sat.

This is not poetry, but it is art from the soldiers. Perhaps useful as a supplement to the poetry. This is from the Great War Series with Indy Neidell. I doubt that you will find a german Siegfred Sassoon. You can find two YT videos of Mr. Sassoon reading his poems. Good luck.

https://youtu.be/CHNuHsZ59rg

@OP. Remember who won. THEIR poetry is what has survived most.

Germany, OTOH, undoubtedly had war poets, but the main feeling one gets from their poetry is political, rather than abstract, melancholy and regretful, as the poetry of the allies turned out to be.

Much of German poetry was suppressed and subsumed by the sheer feeling of political betrayal that the greater part of the population felt after the Armistice. For every one German poet, there were at least ten from the allies, mostly, it has to be said, British, many of whom died in the trenches like so many composers on the brink of greatness. George Butterworth - 'Banks of Green Willows', was shot by a sniper... Even the sons of famous authors were not exempt - Rudyard Kipling's son died there, too.

tac