"In Freuden lebe ich" - Maria Schella (p, voc) & Roland Krispin (git, voc)

Written in the heyday of romanticism, lived through and experienced in a fulfilled life, they also fit into our modern times. Poems between love and happiness, between suffering and death. (Roland Krispin on Eichendorff)

Eichendorff is counted among the most important and still today admired German writers. Many of his poems have been set to music and sung many times. His novella "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts" (From the Life of a Good-For-Nothing) is regarded as the climax and at the same time the end of Romanticism.Eichendorff's idyllic depictions of nature and simple life are characterized by simple imagery and choice of words. Behind this, however, is a multi-layered web of metaphorical symbolism for the interpretation of world, nature and soul, which stands out from pure utility thinking (Eichendorff wrote in the age of the beginning industrial revolution).

A typical feature of many of Eichendorff's works is that they are often religiously related due to his own strong attachment to faith. It is also noteworthy that - unlike so many other Romantics - he did not fall under the influence of Fichte's nationalistic Germanicism, which downgraded other peoples, but sought European coexistence. (Source Wikipedia)

The Berlin singer and musician Roland Krispin set some of these poems to music during a holiday in 2016. It took a while for these new songs to mature into a programme based on old poems. After two attempts it took a meeting with the musician Maria Schella to realize this.