Thank you so much! The published German translation is awful. To publish it bilingual was much better. I guess the publishers want to avoid critical comments such as mine. But I did!
If anybody wants to have a look at my work:
http://www.leonard-cohen.info
Regards from Germany
Detlev

As I have carefully translated Cohens Songs into German, I came across some rather bad professional translations of TNS poems of "Book Of Longing". I have the german book only. I have a special question: There is a poem called "The Faith" in the Book Of Longing: Are the words in ...

By the way, you can find a complete list of all issued songs (and some more) as singles pages and as a PDF here:
http://www.boelters.de/LC/Songs_Of_Leonard_Cohen.html
I have translated Marc Gaffie's collection and there are a lot of comments humbly made by myself - sorry, in German only!

Well, while I was translating the songs into German I've saved a lot of Cohen's comments that Marc Gaffie had collected. See:
http://www.boelters.de/LC/OrigZit.html

Zuerst ein Raeucherstaebchen (Kyara, in front of Manjushri) Auf geht's, und Mit einer Flasche im Mantel (bester Single Malt) An Leonards Tuer geklopft (Klingeln waere ein Sakrileg) Leider bin ich nur ein Mann Erkennst du Maenner, Lennard? Zwei Minuten? Und ein Glas auf Alexandra? Viel Englisch kann ...

Hello Cohen-fans I am new at this board, and all I want is to announce that I have made translations of all Cohen songs into German language. I am a 60 years old Zen disciple, a musician and a psychotherapist so I hope I made a good job (hum, was about 4 weeks of constant sorrow ;-)). The URL: http:...