Found this in the school hallways. I don’t know German
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man, that's triggering some instense school PTSD flashbacks.
It is a piece of Goethe's "Erlkönig":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlk%C3%B6nig
Edit: should be noted that whoever wrote it, has either a very very bad handwriting, or made some typos
Whoever wrote this was probably still in school and I would guess in a North American one because of the cursive they wrote in. I think they also copied the text, badly, and that explains the mistakes.
the type of cursive is actually the same I learned in germany as a kid
When and where did you go to school? That capital A that looks more like the lowercase one I've only ever seen from people from North America.
Another European here to chime in that l also learned to write capital As like that in cursive.
The rs, fs and ts don't look like how we were taught though.