Love song performed by the Moroccan prisoner of war Kadr Ben Hamed at the Halfmoon camp in Wünsdorf

Description

This song was recorded in the Halfmoon camp in Wünsdorf in 1918. Biographical details of the singer are in the PK-files. A translation was produced by Samir El-Moussati in 2014.

Context

The Royal Prussian Phonographic Commission was founded in 1915 by the Prussian Ministry of Culture. This body was formed of 30 researchers each tasked with recording short clips of dialects and languages present within camps all over Germany between 1914 and 1918.

Themes

Original

12_8.mp3

Title

'Liebeslied' Marokkanisch

Creator

Hubert Grimme (German Orientalist)

Date

1 March 1918

Type

Audio file

Language

German
Arabic

Source

This recording forms part of a larger collection of sound recordings authorised by the German Orientalist Hubert Grimme. He produced 30 audio files in March 1918: some were recorded in the Halfmoon camp; others were produced in the Odeon recording studio in Berlin.

Rights

Lautarchiv Berlin

Contributor

Larissa Schmid

Citation

Hubert Grimme (German Orientalist), “'Liebeslied' Marokkanisch ,” Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict, accessed February 17, 2020, http://sourcebook.cegcproject.eu/items/show/67.