Was bekam des Soldaten Weib

Music written by: Kurt Weill
Original lyrics written by: Bertolt Brecht
Composition date: 1942
Language: German
Adapted from: Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib [poem] written by Bertolt Brecht – Long quote
Comments: Translating to "What Did the Soldier's Wife Get?", Weill composed this as a 'ballad for voice and piano' to Brecht's lyrics in 1942 while both were in US exile. The first recording by Lotte Lenya was broadcast on shortwave radio into Nazi Germany.
There are musical rearrangements and the lyrics were later set to music by other composers, too, f. ex. Hanns Eisler (see Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib [Eisler]). Most interpretations use the original title, but, for propaganda reasons, some GDR versions are called "Lied vom Weib des Nazi-Soldaten" (Song of the Nazi Soldier's Wife).
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Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Was bekam des Soldaten Weib	Teresa Stratas	1981
Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib	Έλλη Πασπαλά (Elli Paspala)	1988
Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib	Anirahtak & Jürgen Sturm Band	1989
Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib	Hanna Schaer, Françoise Tillard	1990
Was bekam des Soldaten Weib	June Tabor, Kristien Dehollander and Shoshana Kalisch	1993
Was Bekam des Soldatenweib	Karin Schmidt	1997	Unverified
Was bekam des Soldaten Weib	Pilori	2002
Was bekam des Soldaten Weib	Klaus Kinski	September 23, 2003
Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib	Elisabeth von Magnus - Jacob Bogaart, piano	December 26, 2006
Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib	Kerstin Viberg & Kjell Bygdén	October 1, 2007
Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?	Salome Kammer - Rudi Spring	February 4, 2013
Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?	Adi Braun	October 15, 2017
Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib	Lotte Lenya		Unverified

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
	i	Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?	Alexei Aigui and Dietmar Bonnen	September 9, 2009

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Ballad of the Soldier's Wife	Marianne Faithfull and Chris Spedding	1985
The Ballad of the Soldier's Wife	Marianne Faithfull	September 2, 1996	Live
Ballad of the Soldier's Wife	PJ Harvey	1997
The Ballad of the Soldier's Wife	Elliott Murphy - Iain Matthews	2001
The Ballad of the Soldier's Wife	A.J. Teshin	2008	Unverified
The Soldier's Wife	The Weatherspoons	2011	Acoustic
Ballad of the Soldiers Wife	Caroline Henderson	March 25, 2013
Ballad of the Soldiers Wife	Kurt Weill Ensemble	April 24, 2015

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Canción de la mujer del soldado	Miguel Ríos - Orquesta Ciudad de Granada dirigida por Josep Pons	1999	First release

La mujer del soldado written by unknown author(s) Spanish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		La mujer del soldado	La Chicana	2003	First release

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib	Gisela May - Adolf Fritz Guhl, piano	1962	First release
Das Lied vom Weib des Nazisoldaten	Torsten Föllinger	1979
Lied vom Weib des Nazisoldaten	Eva-Maria Hagen	1997

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Hvad fik soldaterkonen sendt	Marianne Knorr	January 8, 2012

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		And What Did She Get, That Soldiers Wife?	Eric Bentley	1964	First release

Title	Performer	Release date
Ballad of the Nazi Soldier's Wife	Ellen Burstyn	1981
The Song of the Nazi Soldier's Wife	Robyn Archer - The London Sinfonietta conducted by Dominic Muldowney	1984
The Song of the Nazi Soldier's Wife	Adrienne Cooper & Zalmen Mlotek	2000

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Laulu sotilaan vaimosta	Kaisa Korhonen	1970	First release

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Το τραγούδι της γυναίκας του Ναζίστα φαντάρου	Μαρία Φαραντούρη (Maria Farantouri)	1979	First release