TY - BOOK AU - Hagelstange,Rudolf AU - Hagelstange,Rudolf AU - Hagelstange,Rudolf ED - Project Muse, ED - Project Muse. TI - Ballad of the Buried Life T2 - UNC studies in the Germanic languages and literatures SN - 9781469658285 AV - PT2615.A28 B213 192 PB - Project Muse KW - German poetry KW - 20th century KW - Electronic books KW - Poetry KW - lcgft KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Poems; Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references; Open Access N2 - A news item concerning six German soldiers trapped for years in the army food storage bunker provided Rudolf Hagelstange with a plot and an effective symbol to express the tensions, emotions, and paradoxes of modern man's being. In this volume the poet Herman Salinger translates Hagelstange's poem into verse with the original German on facing pages. An introductory essay by Charles W. Hoffmann gives context on Hagelstange and the ballad UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/75853/ ER -