Albrecht von Scharfenberg

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Albrecht von Scharfenberg (born before 1250 (?); Died after 1250 (?)) Is the name given by Ulrich Fuetrer of a German-speaking poet at the end of the High Middle Ages . Albrecht is only known from communications in Fuetrer's work (lifetime: before 1450 - around 1500) that he should have written several novels of Arthurian epic in Middle High German .

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Albrecht's work has not been passed down directly, but exclusively via the detour of the arrangements by Ulrich Fuetrer. Albrecht mentions Albrecht in four places in his book of adventures as a source of his compilations of various Arthurian themes: Albrecht is named in the first part of the book of adventures at the beginning of the genealogy of the Grail family as the "giant" of the medieval poetic style, at the beginning of his Merlin chapter Fuetrer calls Albrecht's translation of a Merlin novel from French as the source; at the end of the Tschionatulander story , Fuetrer remembers Fraw Erenhof , a particularly artistically executed novel by Albrecht , at the end of the Tschionatulander story , and finally he mentions Albrecht in the second part of his own work, the other puoch , as the source for the stanzas to Seifrid de Ardemond .

Accordingly, there were the following works by Albrecht von Scharfenberg :

  • Merlin , a novel, probably a translation of a French work mostly attributed to Robert de Boron ,
  • Seifrid de Ardemond , a novel for Topos impaired Mahrtenehe and
  • Fraw Erenhof , about the content of which nothing can be said, since Fuetrer claims to have read the work, but not used it in his own work.

None of these works has survived, and apart from Fuetrer's references, there is no mention of a poet by this name or his works - or those figures in these works that appear only in Fuetrer's work. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that Albrecht von Scharfenberg is a literary source fiction by Fueter.

Scientific controversy about the identity with the author of the "Younger Titurel"

The identity of Albrecht von Scharfenberg with Albrecht, the poet of the "Younger Titurel" , has been a given since 1809, but has been repeatedly discussed and questioned in German media studies . Since the end of the 20th century, however, it has generally been assumed that there are two different poets, even if they deal with the same material and sometimes use the same sources.

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  1. on Fuetrer and his work cf. Kurt Nyholm: Fuetrer, Ulrich . In: Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters, author's lexicon , volume 2. De Gruyter publishing house , Berlin / New York 1979/2010 (VL 2 ), column 999–1007.
  2. ^ Dietrich Huschenbett 1978 (2010): Albrecht von Scharfenberg , VL 2 , Volume 1, Sp. 201.
  3. s. Dietrich Huschenbett 1978 (2010): Albrecht von Scharfenberg , VL 2 , Volume 1, Sp. 202-204.
  4. Wolfgang Achnitz: German-language Arthurian literature of the Middle Ages . An introduction. Verlag De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-022090-2 , p. 128, FN 79; ibid .: p. 345; ibid .: p. 347.
  5. Hellmut Rosenfeld: Albrecht von Scharfenberg , NDB , 1, 1953, p. 178 f .; accessed August 19, 2020.
  6. cf. on this Dietrich Huschenbett 1978 (2010): Albrecht von Scharfenberg , VL 2 , Volume 1, Col. 204-206.