2 Schwaner’s Germanen-Bibel was republished in 1934 and again in 1941.In physical appearance, the book thus has a spacious, almost monumental character, despite its modest dimensions. These in turn are followed by another six consecutive pages of text, once again divided into sections or individual poems of uneven length, one on each page. These twenty-one pages are followed by twelve pages, where text – once again of varying length – appears only on the right-hand page and the left-hand page remains blank. In the first of these – twenty-one pages of loosely connected verse, printed on very high quality paper in large-font Fraktur or traditional German rather than Roman lettering 1 – the text is divided into sections of uneven length (anywhere from four to seventeen lines) each of which, even the shortest, has a page to itself and can be read either as an untitled individual poem in a collection or as an integral part of a loosely constructed but continuous poetic whole. 1 Rejection of antiqua or Latin script and adoption of Fraktur, often in a highly stylized form, was (.)ġThe Princess’s poem is presented in three typologically distinct parts.
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