English Translation

Bremen Questenberg Schulau (Unterelbe) Brandenburg(Havel) because the prerequisite is that they are created as honest and straight as the old ones. The men who cut those Rolands out of the wood or the stone were not to do with creating works of art. Most of the time they were also plain craftsmen who did not even call themselves artists. They only had the one will to present a manlike figure with a sword, which was seen to exist on behalf of the imperial jurisdiction. Because they themselves were deeply convinced of this mission and had the idea of "The Reich" as the core of their own person within them, these Rolande manifestations of the empire, which still move us strongly today. And because they were only created as what their task was to express without any side-by-side intention, despite their apparent primitiveness, there is more of a temporary artistic content in them than in so many monuments that "for the sake of beauty or for art's sake" were commissioned and created. Today we will perhaps no longer represent Roland in the medieval tank. It will probably correspond more to our feeling of depicting him naked, but also with a steeply raised sword in the fist, the swastika on a shield or a pedestal. H. Kl. Magdeburg