Lotte Lenya Singing "Seeräuber Jenny" (Pirate Jenny)

Lotte Lenya singing "Seeräuber Jenny" in the original 1931 film Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera). So intense in its simplicity!

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[onebaud]

Help! I cannot get this song out of my head. I go around all day singing un a ship with ocht sails, und fifty cannonen. It just keeps going on and on. Make it stop!

[Chizpurfle52595]

The disconnect between her sweet high voice and the song's subject matter is really disconcerting.

[Rumiton]

Not happy in her work. Das ist klar.

[Sophie Fried]

Ich liebe dieses Lied

[MoaxLycan]

I find her stationary nature... unnerving

[pa248346]

Danke Schön!



[martpast1]

yeh--U know it better, but when I see this, I think(or guess) that she is a Jew and its something like about tragic future. she sings like a very good trained(or natural) soprano coloratura, old Italian school,

may be too little for a big stage.

[Steve Kostelecky]

Thanks for sharing this.

[occupyyourmind2]

Kurt Weil was a genius. We all know what the symbolism is in this song. And Lotte Lenya's performance is magnificent. Calculated to throw off the evil doers who were on the rise. . .nonetheless they had to flee the Nazis. Well you likely know the history -- or you could google it if you don't. . . ;)

[defootfreak69]

I love the minor chords after the chorus lines.

[jochenlaser]

Some 30 years later the great Lotte Lenya made an appearance as KGB colonel "Rosa Klebb" in "From Russia with Love". Imho she was the greatest Bond villain ever seen.

[MarionCap]

Lotte Lenya - wow, what a great performance.