Die Lösung

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"{{Lang |de|Die Lösung}}" ({{IPA|de|diː ˈløːzʊŋ|}}, "The Solution") is a famous satirical German poem by Bertolt Brecht about the East German uprising of 1953. Written in mid-1953, it is critical of the government and was not published at the time.{{citation |page=239 |title=The Cambridge Companion to Brecht |publisher= Cambridge University Press |year=2006 |isbn= 978-0-52185709-3}}{{citation |page= 40 |author-link = Russell Hardin | last = Hardin | first = Russel |title=Democracy and Trust |publisher= Cambridge University Press |year=1999 |isbn= 978-0-52164687-1}}{{citation|page=90|authorlink=Glen Newey |first= Glen |last= Newey|title=Does Truth Matter? Democracy and Public Space |publisher= Springer |location= New York |year= 2008|isbn= 978-1-40208848-3 |chapter= The People Versus the Truth: Democratic Illusions}} It was first published in 1959 in the West German newspaper Die Welt.

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{{Lang\|de\|Die Lösung}}	The Solution
style="padding-right:2em;"\|{{Lang\|de\|Nach dem Aufstand des 17. Juni Ließ der Sekretär des Schriftstellerverbands In der Stalinallee Flugblätter verteilen Auf denen zu lesen war, daß das Volk Das Vertrauen der Regierung verscherzt habe Und es nur durch verdoppelte Arbeit zurückerobern könne. Wäre es da Nicht doch einfacher, die Regierung Löste das Volk auf und Wählte ein anderes?}}{{Cite book \|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HaJaJL47NbAC&pg=PA118 \| first = Bertolt \| last = Brecht \| title = Poetry and Prose \|editor-first = Reinhold \| editor-last = Grimm \|publisher= Continuum \|year=2003\|isbn= 978-0-82641505-9}} \|After the uprising of the 17th of June The Secretary of the Writers' Union Had leaflets distributed on the Stalinallee Which stated that the people Had squandered the confidence of the government And could only win it back By redoubled work [quotas]. Would it not in that case Be simpler for the government To dissolve the people And elect another?

The Solution

style="padding-right:2em;"|{{Lang|de|Nach dem Aufstand des 17. Juni

Ließ der Sekretär des Schriftstellerverbands

In der Stalinallee Flugblätter verteilen

Auf denen zu lesen war, daß das Volk

Das Vertrauen der Regierung verscherzt habe

Und es nur durch verdoppelte Arbeit

zurückerobern könne. Wäre es da

Nicht doch einfacher, die Regierung

Löste das Volk auf und

Wählte ein anderes?}}{{Cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HaJaJL47NbAC&pg=PA118 | first = Bertolt | last = Brecht | title = Poetry and Prose |editor-first = Reinhold | editor-last = Grimm |publisher= Continuum |year=2003|isbn= 978-0-82641505-9}}

|After the uprising of the 17th of June

The Secretary of the Writers' Union

Had leaflets distributed on the Stalinallee

Which stated that the people

Had squandered the confidence of the government

And could only win it back

By redoubled work [quotas]. Would it not in that case

Be simpler for the government

To dissolve the people

And elect another?