
Some Green

Born a long time after the end of WWII, this past has still a grip on me, and it became tangible on a warm summer day in 2012, when I stepped away from the main street near Obersalzberg in Berchtesgaden for a short stroll. The concrete remnants of what most certainly were soldier’s barracks before…
“It was as though HeavenHad softly kissed the Earth,So that she in a gleam of blossomHad only to dream of him.” This is the first verse of Joseph von Eichendorff’s poem “Moonlit Night”. The German original and a translation you can read here: oxfordlieder.co.uk. And you might listen to it on youtube, sung by Dietrich…
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