Versöhnung, Gesänge und Psalmen

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Versöhnung, Gesänge und Psalmen

by Oskar Schürer

DE·~34 minutes·13 chapters

Chapters

13 total
1

Armes Wort

1:27
2

Winterritt mit weißen Hunden

0:44
3

Nacht im Februar 1917

1:11
4

Märzpsalm

1:49
5

Seht, wie Tod bereite Schale hebt

1:06
6

Einer doch wandelt...

1:33
7

Ein Menschentag - I.

5:25
8

Flucht und Zuflucht - I.

5:08
9

Nacht

1:00
10

Frühling Eine Trilogie - I. Elegie

6:13

Description

A hushed, dream‑like voice guides the listener through a night‑filled landscape of winter, restless horses, and trembling prayer. The narrator’s fragmented verses echo a struggle between yearning and restraint, as each image of snow‑capped hills, lunar light and frayed prayer becomes a mirror for inner conflict. In the opening act, the poet‑speaker wrestles with the weight of existence, confronting an unforgiving darkness that seems to press the very earth beneath his hooves.

The language is vivid and lyrical, blending the starkness of war‑time February 1917 with an almost ritualistic chant that feels both personal and timeless. Listeners are drawn into a reverie where the boundary between body and spirit blurs, inviting contemplation on mortality, redemption and the relentless search for meaning. The first hour offers an intense, atmospheric immersion that sets a haunting tone for the rest of the journey.

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Language

de

Duration

~34 minutes (32K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2016-06-02

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

OS

Oskar Schürer

1892–1949

Drawn to architecture, cities, and the life of art, this German writer and art historian brought a sharp, curious eye to places like Prague and to the cultural world around him. His career moved between criticism, scholarship, and teaching, giving his work both literary color and academic depth.

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