Ännchen von Tharau

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Ännchen von Tharau (Low Prussian: Anke van Tharaw) is a 17-stanza poem by the Prussian poet Simon Dach. The namesake of the poem is Anna Neander, the daughter of a parson from Tharau, East Prussia (now known as Vladimirovo in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia). The poem was written on the occasion of her marriage in 1636 and had been set to music as a song by 1642.^[1]

Statue

The city of Klaipėda in Lithuania, formerly Memel, has a statue named after the poem (Lithuanian: Taravos Anikė), which stands outside the theatre.^[2]

References

^ Michael Fischer: Ännchen von Tharau (2007). In: Populäre und traditionelle Lieder. Historisch-kritisches Liederlexikon des Deutschen Volksliedarchivs
^ ISBN 978-1-4053-5602-2