
A restless, lyrical journey opens in a vacant square where a young voice wrestles with the glare of city lights and the weight of an unseen fate. The poet’s fragmented verses tumble through night‑lit streets, mixing fevered self‑examination with vivid, almost surreal snapshots of urban life. The language feels both urgent and musical, turning ordinary corners into stages for inner revolt.
In its first act the work interrogates the relationship between the individual and the bustling metropolis, questioning whether the city becomes a tyrannical mother or a mirror for consciousness. Themes of alienation, material excess, and the search for authentic feeling surface amid a chorus of shouting parties and clanking machinery. Listeners are invited into a kaleidoscopic soundscape where each line pulses with restless energy, offering a thought‑provoking glimpse into a world that is at once familiar and disorientingly strange.
Language
de
Duration
~17 minutes (16K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Jens Sadowski
Release date
Sep 11, 2014
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1888–1945
A sharp, urban voice of German Expressionism, this poet and dramatist turned crowded city life, exile, and inner unrest into vivid, memorable writing. His work is especially remembered for its intense imagery and its place in the literary world shattered by Nazism.
View all books
by Hermann Hesse

by Sigmund Freud

by Friedrich Schiller

by Geoffrey Chaucer

by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

by de Lorris Guillaume, de Meun Jean

by Arthur Schnitzler