Berlin - Tel-Aviv [English translation]

I am the star that slept on your floor

I am the star that lies fallen in front of the sky

I am the star that in the night you see the sun in

I am your star, Berlin, Berlin

Elli was 13 years old

Thirty-eight, Berlin Weißensee

The father is not allowed to work as a pediatrist

He doesn`t know how to go on

The mother dreams of Herzl`s old new land

Palestine, his heart hangs onto Germany

The Germany of Rilke, Mann and Schubert

Not onto the Germany that allows this fear here

He will send them away

It can`t be changed anymore

Thirtyeight

The last days of September

Berlin, train Station

She waves at the father through the glass and they start driving

He calls to her, not to cry tears

While traveling to the land of their fathers.

She doesnt understand what that means at first

Didnt she leave the father at that platform?

And the world becomes blurred in front of her eyelids

Drowns in "forever" and "never again"

And they drive into the night

She finds sleep because she feels that hes watching over her

And in her dream he has wings

She dreams hes flying into the South

Flies after her into peace

To Tel-Aviv, hill of spring

I am the star that slept on your Floor

I am the star that lies fallen in front of the sky

I am the star in which you see the sun in the night

I am your star, Berlin, Berlin

Eight days and eight nights on the boat

When the November storm rages

Here above the sea and at home in Berlin

Because of 100 pounds sterling the father cannot flee anymore

And her, banished into this cold world

Prays to a God that she questions

While she counts the days

That she doesn't hold the father in her arms

And she cherishes the things that she's still got from home:

The Rilke volume, a few dresses, her violin

On her travel, escape without refuge

Only this fear of the future

And he doesn't want to believe it until they're in front of the house at night

But they hit and they plunder, they arrest a thousand

Thirtyeight, Sachsenhausen

A letter from Tel-Aviv, he's just happy that they're out

The Little Elli Weinrebe

And this homesickness, will it ever be over?

For the lost country, there in the Holy Land

And she dreams herself far away

And in her dream she has wings

She dreams that she flies out of the South

Flies back into peace

To Berlin, from the hills of spring

I am the star that slept on your floor

I am the star that lies fallen in front of the sky

I am the star in which at night you see the sun

I am your star, Berlin, Berlin

I am the star that you looked for so much

i am the star, the glitter in the branches

I am lost in the smoke above the landscape

I am your star, Berlin, Berlin

• Artist:Sophie Hunger