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{{short description|Poem by Bertolt Brecht}}
{{For|the album by Amon Düül UK|Die Lösung (album)}}
[[File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-20115-0002,_Berlin,_Demonstration_Stalinallee.jpg|thumb|A government sponsored march on the Stalinallee in 1953. The banner reads "Our answer to the provocateurs:  firm confidence in the leadership."]]
"'''{{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.<ref>{{citation |page=239 |title=The Cambridge Companion to Brecht |publisher= Cambridge University Press |year=2006 |isbn= 978-0-52185709-3}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> It was first published in 1959 in the [[West Germany|West German]] newspaper ''[[Die Welt]]''.
==Text==
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!{{Lang|de|Die Lösung}}!!The Solution
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|style="padding-right:2em;"|<poem>{{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?}}<ref>{{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}}</ref></poem>
|<poem>After the uprising of the [[East German uprising of 1953|17th of June]]
The Secretary of the [[Deutscher Schriftstellerverband|Writers' Union]]
Had leaflets distributed on the [[Karl-Marx-Allee|Stalinallee]]
Which stated that the people
Had squandered the [[Motion of no confidence|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 [[Dissolution of parliament|dissolve]] the people
And elect another?</poem>
|}
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