Rainbow (poet)
Rainbow ( Codex Manesse , 14th century)
Rainbow († around 1320 ) was a poet from the Middle Ages.
Life
Almost nothing is known about his living conditions. His competition with Heinrich von Meißen is documented . It is said that he came from Mainz or Ulm and was a blacksmith. He is one of the twelve old masters of the masters Sanges counted, the Meistersinger consign his name as Barthel rainbow .
In addition to Heinrich von Meißen, Konrad Marner and Heinrich von Mügeln , he is also considered one of the four “crowned masters”.
literature
- Works
- Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen: Minnesinger , Volume 2, Leipzig 1838, page 309.
- Secondary literature
- Karl Bartsch (ed.): Master songs of the Kolmar manuscript. Reprint Hildesheim 1962.
- Hermann Kabe: Studies on the Mastersinger Barthel Regenbogen. Diss. Greifswald 1930.
- Johannes Rettelbach: Rainbow. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 258 ( digitized version ).
- Frieder Schanze: Rainbow . In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . Volume 7, Berlin, New York 1989, pp. 1077-1087.
- Reinhold Schröder: The blacksmith poems attributed to the rainbow. On the problem of the artisan poet in the late Middle Ages , in: Ludger Grenzmann and Karl Stackmann (eds.), Literature and lay education in the late Middle Ages and in the Reformation period, Stuttgart 1984, pages 289–313 ISBN 3-476-00499-6 .
- Burghart Wachinger: Sängerkrieg: Investigations on the verse poetry of the 13th century. Munich 1973.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rainbow |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barthel rainbow |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German minstrel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1320 |