Oh Murderous Screams, Oh Bad Deeds

Give Yourself Oh Murderous Screams, Oh Bad Deeds

Oh murderous screams, oh evil that

a sensational collection of texts and melodies

In earlier times, carnival singers and moralists had to compete against many other performers such as jugglers, bear drivers, jesters, magicians or miracle doctors. They had to be unique, and they achieved this with intelligent, fast-paced and dramatically extremely precise performances, aimed at the spontaneous outbursts of emotion of the audience, without getting bored for a single second.

The sheer amount of notation the editor provided is nothing short of sensational that he was able to find for this book, and with which the lively melodies of the songs are preserved.

Expanded with a wealth of background information and accompanying illustrations, this book combines the original with the fastest and most exciting carnival songs of previous centuries, whether the morality of Isabella and the robber at Wartburg Castle in 1221 or the carnival ballad about the betrayal and beheading of Klaus Störtebeker in 1401...

< br> the author
Walter Hansen, born in 1934, studied at the University of Munich and was a reporter, editor and department head for several large German daily newspapers. He has been a freelance writer since 1970. He has published numerous biographies and non-fiction books on cultural history and won several literary prizes.