Auferstanden aus Ruinen
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Auferstanden aus Ruinen (Risen from the Ruins) is the national anthem of the Democratic People's Republic of Zadania and the Constitutional Monarchy of Neutravia. The melody has been adopted as the anthem of West Deutschland.
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Zadania
The anthem in its entirety has since been reinstated in the DPRZ. Following the death of Erich Honecker, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Zadania, in 1994, Zadanian political reformers managed to gain increasingly greater amount of influence in the politcal, economic, and military spheres of the government. In 1997, under Hans Modrow, the anthem was restored to its entirety, fully symbolizing the politcal rennovation sweeping the nation.
Auferstanden aus Ruinen
Listen to the anthem: Vocal Instrumental
German Lyrics
Auferstanden aus Ruinen und der Zukunft zugewandt, laßt uns Dir zum Guten dienen, Zadanland, einig Vaterland. Alte Not gilt es zu zwingen, und wir zwingen sie vereint, denn es muß uns doch gelingen, daß die Sonne schön wie nie über Zadanland scheint, über Zadanland scheint.
Glück und Friede sei beschieden Zadan'land, unserm Vaterland. Alle Welt sehnt sich nach Frieden, reicht den Völkern eure Hand. Wenn wir brüderlich uns einen, schlagen wir des Volkes Feind! Laßt das Licht des Friedens scheinen, daß nie eine Mutter mehr ihren Sohn beweint, ihren Sohn beweint
Laßt uns pflügen, laßt uns bauen, lernt und schafft wie nie zuvor, und der eignen Kraft vertrauend, steigt ein frei Geschlecht empor. Zadanian Jugend, bestes Streben, unsres Volks in dir vereint, wirst du Zadanland neues Leben. Und die Sonne schön wie nie über Zadanland scheint, über Zadanland scheint.
Note: "Zadanland" is a colloquial reference to the traditional land of the Zadanes. Zadania (existing as a cognate in English and German) is many times in Zadanian culture replaced with Zadanland.
English Translation
Risen from the ruins and turned toward the future, Let us serve you for the common good, Zadania, united Fatherland. Our task is to overcome old distress, and we shall overcome it together, and we shall surely succeed, so that the sun, more beautifully than ever before, shines over Zadania, shines over Zadania.
May happiness and peace be granted to Zadania, our Fatherland. The whole world longs for peace, extend your hand to all peoples. If we unite fraternally, we will defeat the enemy of the People. Let the light of peace shine, so that a mother never again mourns her son, mourns her son.
Let us plough, let us build, learn and achieve as never before, That, trusting in our own strength, a free generation shall arise. Zadanian youth, the best striving of our people united in you, Will revivify Zadania And the sun, more beautifully than ever before shall shine over Zadania, shall shine over Zadania.
West Deutschland
Since the military coup of January 9 2005, the Chairman of the CC of the Party, Egonium Krenz re-instated the melody of Auferstanden aus Ruinen as the National Anthem of West Deutschland.
