Fritz Wunderlich: Ännchen von Tharau ()

In 1636, a young girl (17 years old, named Anna Neander) was getting married to a minister, Johannes Partatius. Simon Dach, a baroque poet who was born in Memel, (1605-1659), was invited to the wedding. He fell in love with Anna Neander and wrote a poem about her: “Ännchen von Tharau.“ The original poem was written in Plattdeutsch, and was later put into Hochdeutsch by Johann Gottfied Herder in 1778. Simon Dach’s works were also translated into Lithuanian. In 1912 a statue of Ännchen von Tharau was er