Bligger from Steinach
Bligger von Steinach (documented perhaps from 1174 to 1209; died probably after 1209) was a German minstrel . He was a Rhineland-Franconian nobleman based in Neckarsteinach .
People with the name Bligger von Steinach are attested several times at court and in the company of three emperors ( Friedrich I. Barbarossa , Heinrich VI. And Otto IV. ).
The separation of the documentary evidence "Bligger von Steinach" 1142 to 1209 is difficult. While previous research wanted to see the poet in Bligger II (documented 1152–1174, 1178?), Meves argued in 1993 for Bligger III. (documented from 1174), who is considered the founder of the Lords of Harfenberg .
Two Minnelieder by Bligger von Steinach in the Weingartner Liederhandschrift (handwriting B) and the Codex Manesse (handwriting C) have come down to us. The Codex Manesse also contains a saying of 15 verses and a picture of the author.
Gottfried von Strasbourg and Rudolf von Ems praised him as one of the most important poets of their time. Her praise, clad in metaphors of embroidery and spinning for Gottfried and imitated by Rudolf, refers to a lost epic poem by umbehanc , about the content of which nothing is known. Research has speculatively linked various texts, in particular the so-called Ainune fragment in a lost manuscript from the Lake Constance monastery in Salem .
The thesis recently taken up again by the historian Heinz Thomas that Bligger was the author of Moriz von Craûn is generally rejected.
More recently, local historian Dr. Jürgen Breuer and his brother, the Germanist Dieter Breuer, specialist in early modern literature, revived the older thesis that Bligger's lost work was the Nibelungenlied . In the relevant Nibelungen research, this thesis has been rejected by Joachim Heinzle and others.
In 1827 August Leibrock published a historical novel Bligger von Steinach the Outlaw. A story from the times of the Crusades .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gebr. Breuer: "Talk to spaeher." Political history in the Nibelungenlied. Fink, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7705-2972-3 . These arguments more easily accessible at Jean Firges : Das Nibelungenlied. An epic from the Hohenstaufen era. Sonnenberg, Annweiler 2001, ISBN 3-933264-10-3 , pp. 58-64, who cautiously agrees.
- ↑ Proof of Leibrock's novel
literature
- Herbert Kolb: Bligger von Steinach , in: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author's Lexicon, 2nd Edition, Vol. 1 (1978), Col. 895-897
- Hugo Kuhn: Bligger von Steinach. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 304 ( digitized version ).
- Volker Mertens: Bligger von Steinach . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 2, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-7608-8902-6 , Sp. 278 f.
- Uwe Meves: Documentary evidence of minstrels in the 12th century using the example of Bliggers von Steinach. In: Literary Interest Formation in the Middle Ages. Stuttgart / Weimar 1993, pp. 75-105.
- Richard Moritz Meyer: Bligger von Steinach . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 668-670.
Web links
- Literature by and about Bligger von Steinach in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bligger in the Manesse handwriting
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bligger from Steinach |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German minstrel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1174 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1209 |