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Hans Bethge (9 January 1876 – 1 February 1946) was a German poet whose reputation abroad rests above all on the versions of the Tang dynasty poetry set in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. The Max Eyth House in Kirchheim unter Teck houses a permanent exhibit of Hans Bethge's books, photographs and other artifacts, while his manuscripts are preserved at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach.[1]

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Hans Bethge (1913).png

Life


Hans Bethge was born in 1876 in Dessau. He studied modern languages and philosophy at the universities of Halle, Erlangen and Geneva. After graduation, he spent two years as a teacher in Spain. In 1901, he set himself up as a freelance writer in Berlin. In 1943, at the height of the air campaign, he moved to the Swabian countryside where he spent his last years.

Hans Bethge treasured friendships as well as all that was beautiful; many writers and artists were his friends, including the poet Prince Emil von Schoenaich-Carolath, the painters Willi Geiger and Karl Hofer, and the art historian Julius Meier-Gräfe, as well as other artists from the Worpswede artist colony. The Jugendstil painter Heinrich Vogeler illustrated three of his books, and the sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck, whose genius Bethge had recognized early on, made several portraits of him.

He died in Göppingen in 1946, aged 70; he was buried in Kirchheim unter Teck.


Artistic achievement


Bethge published several volumes of poems (chiefly on love and nature), diaries, travelogues, short stories, essays and plays. He had great success as an editor of modern poetry, German and foreign. But above all, his poetic translations of oriental classics (starting in 1907) gained him wide recognition, in spite of their reliance on previous translators. The first such book, "The Chinese Flute", had a printing of 100,000 copies. Gustav Mahler used six of its poems in Das Lied von der Erde. The fresh, musical rhythm of Bethge's language and his free versification inspired settings by more than 180 other composers, among them Richard Strauss, Karol Szymanowski, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Hanns Eisler, Anna Teichmüller, Viktor Ullmann, Gottfried von Einem, Ernst Krenek, Artur Immisch, Ludvig Irgens-Jensen, Paul Graener, Bohuslav Martinů, Ernst Toch, Fartein Valen, Krzysztof Penderecki and Egon Wellesz.


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Grave marker of Hans Bethge in Kirchheim unter Teck
Grave marker of Hans Bethge in Kirchheim unter Teck

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- [en] Hans Bethge (poet)

[es] Hans Bethge

Hans Bethge (Dessau, 9 de enero de 1876 - Göppingen, 1 de febrero de 1946) fue un poeta y traductor alemán, famoso especialmente por sus traducciones al alemán de poesía oriental (árabe, persa, china). Sus versiones de poemas de la dinastía Tang china fueron musicados por Gustav Mahler en su obra La canción de la tierra. El compositor polaco Karol Szymanowski también compuso un ciclo de canciones (Canciones de amor de Hafiz, op. 24) basándose en traducciones de Bethge del poeta persa Hafiz Shirazi. Otros importantes músicos que se inspiraron en las obras de Bethge fueron Richard Strauss, Arnold Schönberg, Anton Webern, Hanns Eisler, Viktor Ullmann, Gottfried von Einem, Ernst Krenek, Artur Immisch, Ludvig Irgens-Jensen, Paul Graener, Ernst Toch, Fartein Valen y Egon Wellesz.

[fr] Hans Bethge

Hans Bethge (9 janvier 1876 - 1er février 1946) est un poète et traducteur allemand, surtout connu pour ses recueils de poésie lyrique orientale.

[ru] Бетге, Ханс

Ханс Бетге (нем. Hans Bethge, 9 января 1876, Дессау – 1 февраля 1946, Гёппинген) – немецкий поэт, переводчик восточных литератур.



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