Brit Reacts to Herbert Grönemeyer - Der Weg Live 2003
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- I didn't think I would cry watching the live version but this was emotional! Let me know in the comments section if you've seen this before.
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When someone who doesn't speak your language starts crying while listening to your songs, you know as a singer-songwriter, you've done everything right. Great work, Herbert!
Music got no language, we feel frequencies and energy thats why you can cry to sad songs even you dont understand one word but you feel the melody
Well, even Germans usually don't understand Grönemeyer's words. But he is loved anyway.
Awesome song. The Dutch Guus Meeuwis made a translation on this music,it is also lovely/touching.. it was played on my moms cremation even.
The lyrics in german are so subtle and soft, full of meaning and phrases. It is just a beautiful song.
So true, in the same verse so much pride, strength and will and on the other side so fragile and tender! Beautiful!
Just sad we (Germans) don't understand a word without reading the subtitles, it's a shame that he destroys the whole atmosphere of the song with his terrible way of singing.
That is completely true, but I think, you can get the lyrics only fully, when you're a native speaker as I am. I guess, that about 10-15% are lost in translation.
Herbert Grönemeyer is the ambassador for the poetic and beauty of the German language without pathos.
German language actually isn't really made for pathos
That's true! He has written the best love songs, like "Halt mich" and "Land unter". His poetry is so profound and memorable that even almost 40 years later the song "Land unter" transports me back to my lonely sunset walk through the French Camargue when I heard it on my walk-man.
@@hanssquirrel302yes it is. A language this specific and precise is made for expressing feelings
@@hanssquirrel302 Oh, careful there. Read "Des Teufels General"
It has a wonderful piece, and I copy from wikipedia
„Und jetzt stellen Sie sich doch mal Ihre Ahnenreihe vor - seit Christi Geburt. Da war ein römischer Feldhauptmann, ein schwarzer Kerl, braun wie ne reife Olive, der hat einem blonden Mädchen Latein beigebracht. Und dann kam ein jüdischer Gewürzhändler in die Familie, das war ein ernster Mensch, der ist noch vor der Heirat Christ geworden und hat die katholische Haustradition begründet. - Und dann kam ein griechischer Arzt dazu, oder ein keltischer Legionär, ein Graubündner Landsknecht, ein schwedischer Reiter, ein Soldat Napoleons, ein desertierter Kosak, ein Schwarzwälder Flözer, ein wandernder Müllerbursch vom Elsaß, ein dicker Schiffer aus Holland, ein Magyar, ein Pandur, ein Offizier aus Wien, ein französischer Schauspieler, ein böhmischer Musikant - das hat alles am Rhein gelebt, gerauft, gesoffen und gesungen und Kinder gezeugt - und - und der Goethe, der kam aus demselben Topf, und der Beethoven und der Gutenberg, und der Matthias Grünewald, und - ach was, schau im Lexikon nach. Es waren die Besten, mein Lieber! Die Besten der Welt! Und warum? Weil sich die Völker dort vermischt haben. Vermischt - wie die Wasser aus Quellen und Bächen und Flüssen, damit sie zu einem großen, lebendigen Strom zusammenrinnen. Vom Rhein - das heißt: vom Abendland. Das ist natürlicher Adel. Das ist Rasse. Seien Sie stolz darauf, Hartmann - und hängen Sie die Papiere Ihrer Großmutter in den Abtritt. Prost."
Diese Sprache zerstören wir jetzt mit dem Gendern 🤦♂️
Herbert Grönemeyer's wife was an actress. If you know that, you might understand the passages about Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and the Golden Balcony a little better.
Grönemeyer never wanted to perform again after his wife's death, but his children asked him to sing this song in which he dealt with her death. The album "Mensch" was created as a result.
Mensch was his best Album for me. Bochum of course, too. But Mensch has so many songs people can emotionally relate too.
Bochum and Mensch are his best albums by far! Love him!🎉❤
@@tesla-spectre Bochum becomes the anthem of the whole region Ruhgebiet. The pulse of steel and coal what has driven this aea.
He later told in Interviews that writing this song was like a therapy for him. The 2 children were 9 and 11 when their mum died. The family lived in London until the kids grew up because they had more privacy there.
And he also lost his brother during that period, I think
Yes, 4 days after he lost his brother, his wife died😢
Real men cry at this song. It shows you are perfectly human.
I cry every time i hear this song, never got numb to it.
Just like me...
Same
Do you understand now? If you have lost a loved one, you can't listen to the song without crying.
Grönemeyer is a poet who is very good with words and it is precisely the words that touch your heart.
Thank you for taking another look at this ❤
Dafür müsste man erstmal verstehen was der sagt xD
Lies es einfach. Der Text ist bei Google nur einen Klick entfernt. @@lilprinc3ss484
Schade das du ihn nicht verstehen kannst, habe damit gar keine Probleme, obwohl zugegebenermaßen nuschelt er manchmal. @@lilprinc3ss484
Komisch ich 43 mit hörleiden kann ihn gut verstehen 😎@@lilprinc3ss484
@@lilprinc3ss484wenn du es nicht verstehst, ist es dein Problem.
The song was played at my father's funeral, he was a huge Herbert Grönemeyer fan, which is why I dedicated this song to him to say goodbye to him with honor! And that reaction really made me cry again..
Miss you Dad! 🙏🏼❤️
🕯🕯🕯
I am so sorry for your loss. Your father is always at your side. He will always help and protect you ❤
He is the godfather of German musical poetry. Only he can do what he does. I just went to his concert a week ago, he is 68 years old but still has every concert sold out. People love him and when he plays this song, its so silent, you could here a needle drop
I can't listen to this song without crying. Gets me every time ❤
Das zeigt mir, dass du viel Herz hast, erhalte dir das liebe Grüße.
@@Apophis1966 ❤️ Du auch
Same ❤
So true ❤
With the death of Herbert Grönemeyer's brother Wilhelm on November 1st, 1998 and his wife Anna on November 5th, 1998, Grönemeyer suffered two severe blows of fate. It took Grönemeyer over a year to become artistically active again. He dedicated the song “Der Weg” to his first wife.
In 2003 I had this song played at my wife's funeral, she also battled cancer and lost (we lost).
(((🖤)))
Sorry for your loss ❤
Ist es dir gelungen diesen großen Schmerz auszuhalten und neues Glück zu finden? Ich wünsche es dir so sehr.❤
@@MsLittleHexe Die Kinder fingen mich auf. Erst ich sie, dann sie mich.
@@Apophis1966 Alles Gute Dir und Deinen Kindern!
I still don’t get how he managed to sing this song live for the first few times after she had passed. It’s a mystery to me how he held himself together there.
The subtitles are very good. They carry the emotional impact of the lyrics quite faithfully. Something is always lost in translation, but this is as good as it gets.
I agree - and I'm a professional translator.
Agree!
you are right, but still, in German in is more beautiful and touching.
Interestingly, though, I always understood "Hast ihn nie verraten, deine Plan vom Glück" as "you never revealed" instead of "you never betrayed" your plan for happiness. Bit of a diffent perspective, both beautiful. He's a magician...
@@gegenton3953 To me it always sounded like "never betrayed", but that´s very subjective and in many cases even the artists themselves can´t or don´t want to reveal every nuance they had in mind when writing.
For me as a German, this song together with "Halt mich" are the two *most beautiful* Lovesongs i have ever heard sung in German.
I literally don´t know any other song or lyrics in German that move me and let me feel that much. Makes me cry every single time.
"Every room you flooded with sun(shine)" doesn´t do the German original "Du hast jeden Raum mit Sonne geflutet" any justice.
For me, it is one of the most beautiful compliments you could ever give to a loved one or partner.
And yes, you can see it in every facial expression, and his voice, that Herbert has loved his wife very much. The way he sings this is heart wrenching.
Ich stimme absolut zu.... Halt mich und Der Weg..... was für lyrische Mesiterwerke
1 years before this song came out, i lost my mother to cancer. She was a Herbert Grönemeyer-Fan. This Song means alot to me.. for me it's about my mum.
One year after this song was released I lost my husband. This song will be connected with him forever 😢❤️.
Herbert puts into words what I am feeling.
I cry every time I hear this song. I think the sadest lyrics that were ever written
Tears in heaven is also sad
"Du fehlst mir so" by Annett Louisan
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The lyrics in German are even more touching, trust me.
I lost my father in 2003. I was only 8. I have a tattoo of the last line on my left arm.
Ich trag Dich bei mir bis der Vorhang fällt. Forever and always ❤
wow! i could imagine doing the same.
Will I ever be able to listen to this song without crying!? 😢
This live version is amazing because you can almost feel his pain in his audience. They all cry with him. Gives me goosebumps every time.
Grief, mourning, death... that's something for the living. Whatever you may believe, the dead are beyond these problems.
But for those who don't leave, who stay on this stage... it's just as Herbert sings it: we have to live with in, in a new, strange, unfamiliar world... keeping those we lost in our memories.
Crying is allowed esp. with songs like this. Hugs!
crying means no shame, it means at that moment, you feel more than your heart could handle.
es hat mal einer gesagt "nicht alle Tränen sind von Übel " Ich heule jedes mal wenn ich das Lied höre
jau , stimmt !
Gandalf, am Ende von Rückkehr des Königs.
@@user-mx1ct7be5r ganz genau 👍
It was played during my father's burial... kills me everytime I hear it. Heard it once in an IKEA and had to sit somewhere on a pile of carpets, hiding my face. Miss you, Dad!
It is not a farewell, it is a reunion. All the best for you!
I cannot hear this song without crying. I joined the first concert where he sung that song. ... thousands of people could feel him so much. Herbert also lost some tears. I will always remember that special concert. It was never the same or similar again on later concerts.
i tear up everytime... but crying means no shame, it means at that moment, you feel more than your heart could handle.
It's not about his voice! It's not about his timing. It's about his LYRICS! Herbert Grönemeyer is our G. O. A. T. when it was music and lyrics. He will make you laugh or cry with his music.... He will make you #feel.
🥰😘😍
Another great song from Herbert is Mensch. Live version is amazing
I confirm ...
Choas is a nice song too or "Sie mag musik nur wenn Sie laut ist" (she likes musik only if its loud - a song about a deaf woman who enjoys loud musik)
this song makes everybody cry that ever lost a loved one
i´ve been in one of his concerts right after his brother and his beloved wife passed away. Normaly the hell is burning in his concerts, because in germany he is an absolut super superstar. People are screaming and singing..... but within this song ...... everybody was silence, some people cried.... 28000 people totaly in silence...... these are the moments you feel so much love for all people you love and lost .........impressiv :(
Me, too. I was in Baden Baden airport concert.
As a german, watching you being moved and not just honouring his music and songs, but his story…i began to cry too. Thank you for sharing this. 🙏🏽♥️
I couldn't hear that song without crying for a long time. Because when I heard it for the first time,I just came out from the hospital in which my mother died a few hours ago
Good on you mate. One of us. No one can watch this without crying.
I remember when during the big flood in the early 2000s in Germany the song " Mensch" was everywhere. It hit a nerve. Herbert is a great singer-songwriter.
Hey Dwayne, this song would have faild if you would not have shed a tear! Grönemeyer is a masterful artist.
Did you know that Herbert Grönemeyer was actually an actor very esrly on in his carreer and starred in the war film "The Boat" in the early 80s playing one of the officers!
It's called "Das Boot" in English as well, thanks to Star Trek: The original German title was kept because it looked like a dictionary entry - "das" being the Klingon translation of the English word "boot".
Thank you almighty algorithm for reminding me of this song. I am German and I spent a year as a teaching assistant in the Uk. In fact, I used this song in one of my lessons and tried to convey the poetry of this song. I mean, every line of this song is poetry: „together we bowed the rain“ is my favourite lyric. However, I wasn’t very successful and my students wanted to listen to Rammstein, instead.
Grönemeyer is a German poet, and yes, I also cried.
Every time I hear this song, I get goosebumps.
I know that one day one of us - my wife or I - will have to go first. And I'm scared of that. Scared of being alone if she goes first, and scared of leaving her alone if I have to go.
This song is so incredibly powerful, if you are German, think of a person you lost, your mother, grandmother, father any person of importance you lost and listen to that song. It is impossible not to cry.
. . . every time, when i hear this song, my eyes are getting a deep sea of tears, remembering of all the beloved who died; and really, they're all deep inside of my heart and my soul - til the curtain falls. There's no other song which can generate these emotions.
Herbert Grönemeyer is one of germanys greatest musicians! I believe that there will never be one, who is like him, ever again.
Herbert Grönemeyer is one of our german treasures. And sharing is caring. He is a very human and gentle soul, who speaks up for the youth and democracy. His Album „Mensch“ with this Song was my first LP ever. Listened to it round and round. Thank you for sharing!
And the whole world believes that German is a brutal language and that Germans are cold.
Germans aren't cold-hearted, many folks here may be quiet distant but also very open, transparant and straight forward, and perhaps unconditionally honest, but it's actually a mixture that i like
The Germans are not better or worse than others. That is a question of character and not of nationality. The German language is more diverse than almost any other. It is not for nothing that it is the language of the greatest poets, such as Schiller or Goethe. And I say this as a German with a migration background
Add Herbert Grönemeyer to that list. He is amazing with poetry.
And yes I say that while knowing that German is not my mothertongue.
Well, the way he sings I guess reafirms this a bit. He does not sing with a real gentle connotation, quite the opposite. He uses unusual accentuation even for german ears (which he is famous for) - that makes it rather hard sounding, sometime a bit like the barking of a Dog. Sometimes a more gentle line of lyrics shines through, but there are better singers to make the german language comforting for foreigners ears than Grönemeyer. He is an interesting singer though, but not a great one in the conventional sense of having a great voice or bandwith - more an excellent song writer and poet than a singer I would say. But I do understands fans of him - once you get used to his way of singing it can grow on you. An acquired taste, one could say, and for certain one of a kind.
@@40hup I find him extremely comforting while he sounds so much like my father. And I as a Swede find his German to me soothing and soft. The opposite of Hitler and his harshly sounding German. Take the song Land Unter or Deine Hand or Halt Mich all three songs sounds so soft and warm.
sitting crying in front of my laptop
The melody is beautiful, the lyrics are captivating, and when you know the story behind the song, you just can´t avoid crying by listening.
For me this is one of the biggest german songs ever, this speaks to everyone and u can feel his pain.
I started crying at the first note...
Greetings from Germany :*
It is !
I do know and love this song for that long...but I still cry evytime I listen to it
Listened to this a thousand times, and again i find myself crying. Was touched by your reaction. As always i enjoy your good hearted personality. Keep going.👋👍
Hey I‘m from Germany and this song is the most beautiful and most sadest song aswell.
It‘s a masterpiece and your reaction speaks everything.
Danke Herbert.
When I first heard this on the radio back then I had to cry so hard I had to pull over by the side of the road. He made all of Germany weep with him for the loss of his wife.
Thank you so much for your emotional reaction to this beautiful sad song. You are a great, sympathetic person👌 I have now subscribed to your channel😊 All the best and greetings from northern Germany.
He is definitely one of our most valued national treasure, great artist and a superior human being!
I'm a huge fan!
Grönemeyer is a great poet. The song "Mensch" was written at the same time. And he also finds so clear and strong words to let us know what he's thinking and feeling deep within after loosing his wife. And there's another song, if I hear it tears are running :It's called "Golf November" by Reinhard Mey
I agree. He is one of the great german poets of our time.
Have not heard this song for a very long time...what can I say but cry again. Just thinking of my love ones makes me thankful as long we can share this life.
The song "Der Weg" by Herbert Grönemeyer is actually a very personal piece in which he deals with the loss of his wife Anna Henkel and his brother Wilhelm Grönemeyer. Both died in 1998. In the song, Grönemeyer expresses his grief and love, but also hope and memories of the time they spent together. It is a very emotional song that touches many people who have experienced similar losses.
It’s absolutely great that an outstanding song works in the whole world! No matter which language, the music alone does the job…
it is so moving…. He is a real poet!
I was actually there at the concert that year ❤ I was just a teenager and went with my mum and cousin. It was just magical and I'll never forget this evening 😢
This was the last song my grandma wished for her funeral, which sadly happened last friday, cause she passed away on the 26th april ... My aunt/her daughter died in december and chosed this as her last funeral song too. I´m thinking my granny died cause she was heartbroken to have to bury her own daughter. :(
I have a very heavy heart and it hurts to listen to it but your reaction brought me to smile, cause you felt the meaning! Thanks Dwayne.
He`s just an amazing songwriter... he always touches the hearts...❤🧡💛💚💙💜
That‘s the power of music. It hits you right in the heart.
First of all, crying really brings out your human beauty. Thanks for sharing your feelings. Second of all, damn those subtitles are spot-on. And Grönemeyer, well... a legend.
I growed up with his music… and all his songs are iconic and he have always such a beautiful lyrics
You are a so warm person !!!
grönemeyer is beautiful. he has lots of good songs and so much energy. once listened to this song next to a lake, after a rain, while the sun was setting (on a concert). really something else.
Such a deep personal song! I lost my Dad when i was 22y´s he was also a hugh Herbert Grönemeyer fan. R.I.P for his Wife!
@Dwayne's Lens greatfull respectfull review and reactions with your emotional part.
Herbert Grönemeyer is also well known as an actor. In the 1980's he played Leutnant Werner in "Das Boot" directed by Wolfgang Petersen. A masterpiece.
I was there in 2003. This song always gets me. What a great poet.
That was one of my Mum's favorite Songs. She passed away 2 years ago at the age of 63. This Song always makes my cry so hard...❤
It's like Herbert wrote this about my beloved Grandfather, everything about Herberts wife in the lyrics is like my "Opa" s personality. So I grief every time I hear this song, but at the same time knowing he is still in my soul and i carrying him with me until my own curtain falls, like in the lyrics at the end.
Writing this song might be kind of therapy. But then publishing it - and even playing it live on stage is something different.
Unbelievable if you know the background story...
It is the most touching and beautiful treatise on grief ever written. It always reduces me to a puddle of tears. Thank you for giving it a shot without it being in your language.
Beautiful that you show your feelings. Greetings from Germany.
My mom die of breastcancer in 2001, she used to love to listen to Herbert Grönemeyers songs in the 90s.
When I first heard this song for the first time, I broke down cried hard and missed my mom so much. But also felt so much love for her and also touched by Grönemeyers love for his wife.
Ich trage Dich sicher in meiner Seele, Mama
We all cried back then… it’s so beautiful and right from the heart
My mother was a huge Grönemeyer fan ever since the 1980s. We played this song on hrr funeral this February. Se passed after a long battle with cancer.
If anyone has ever been able to put words and sounds to pain and suffering, it is him, it is this. His work is majestic, without pomp , yet so much feel and honesty.
i sometimes have cought myself thinking , should his music be so sincere ? Because you need tremendous loss and grief to come to that point. it always makes me shiver.
I have been to one of his first concerts when he performed this song and you could feel and see how hard it was for him to sing it. Heartbreaking
He's a bit of a national treasure over here. Incredible artist and person!
Regardless of whether you understand the language, everyone knows that the song expresses deep feelings.
Thanks for taking your time to listen to this emotinal song. I am from the hometown of Herbert Grönemeyer and i would like to see your reaktion to his song "Mensch" ( for 23 weeks Nr.1 in the german musik charts) It is really nice song and emotinial too. tbh my favorit song from him is his homarge to our home town. this song you find under the name "Bochum" from him. Have a nice day!
I love your reaction. Your're a true human with a heart!!!❤
You are a beautiful soul, Dwayne- it was a beautiful reaction. 🕊️💛💛💛💛💛🕊️ I added you for life!!!!!
he s a brave german a norm a human a friend a big brother , he s the biggest german artist i ever know.. he s my hero
i think his wife and brother are soo pride of him....they both never forget with this song.
This song was playing on the radio on the car ride home after my mum and i visited my grandpa in the hospital after undergoing his last round of chemo therapy before he died.
Herbert was voted Germanies best songwriter/ componist years ago.
A very good freind of mine of 57years in the UK ( I'm an expat living in German) lost both his daughter and wife to breast cancer last year. It's such a horrible illnes and hereditary. I can't even begin to imagine how he and the family feel, god knows I felt bad.
i am eating my spaghetti and i'm still crying.... and i can't stop hahaha. Herbert Grönemeyer is such a great singer and songwriter, but i knew that before i watched this video 😅
dwayne, you wouldn't have been authentic if you had held back the tears. Thank you for picking this video. It's just brilliant. I listened to it a lot when my own mortality caught up with me. An also good song: "Still" from "Jupiter Jones".
Thank you for your Reaktion.
Greetz from North Germany!
I'm crying right now. This Song was played at the funeral from my Grandma😢
yeah, it´s hard not to cry . . .
As a singer you can relate how hard it is to sing a song about loosing a person by dead. Your voice can break so easy because of your emotions.
His way of singing destoys everything. You can be lucky to have subtitles. As German I didn't understand a word without reading the English subtitles.
Thank you Sir❤
There are also several hidden meanings in this song
For example:
"Hast ihn nie verraten, deinen Plan vom Glück"
Can be translated into "never betrayed your plan for happiness" but also into "never revealed your plan for happiness" (since verraten has two meanings in german) - hinting that there was more she wanted to do ... but she never came to tell what that was because her life ended early.
Herbert Grönemeyer Ein Stück vom Himmel kann ich nur empfehlen
Ein Stück vom Himmel ....
Dort bist Du ❤
Du fehlst mir. ...
This song is beautyful, but so sad, that I thought to myself: ´Now I have to listen to his "Wann ist ein Mann ein Mann" in order to cheer me up´
great reaction, great guy, great song, great singer!