Flower games

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Medal Toulouse 1819, Clémence Isaure, 1450 Toulouse - 1500 and the Jeux Floraux, obverse
Medal of the Jeux Floraux, Toulouse 1819, reverse side

The flower games ( old French Jeux Floraux ) are a poetry contest that emerged from the Gai Saber Society in 1324 . It is awarded to a poet from the Langue d'oc every year at the beginning of May . The honors consisted of a golden amaranth as well as a violet , a wild rose and a marigold made of silver.

The competition, which was originally in Toulouse for the care of the troubadour poetry was launched and in the Renaissance of Clémence Isaure was revived in 1694 is the French king Louis XIV. As Academie des Jeux Floraux to the rank of Academy were collected. After that, only poems in French were allowed. From 1745 the (since then gold) rose became a price for prose ; its winner bears the title of Maître ès Jeux Floraux . Caused by the French Revolution , the Flower Games did not take place between 1790 and 1806. After that the tradition was continued. Since the 19th century , other cities in the south of France, such as Béziers, have also held literary competitions of this type.

The most important winners of the flower games include Pierre de Ronsard , Robert Garnier , Jean Bodin , Étienne de La Boétie , Michel de Montaigne , Fabre d'Églantine and Victor Hugo .

Gürzenichsaal in Cologne, in which the Cologne Flower Games took place in 1899

1899 led John Fastenrath the flowers Games in Cologne to view the Rhineland and Westphalia to promote poetry. However, the German competition only took place until 1914.

In 1904, in the style of the Cologne Flower Game, the "Baltimore Flower Game" was held in Baltimore ( USA ), a poets' contest for German-American poets based on the minstrel style . Ernst Henrici , who is in close correspondence with Fastenrath, was one of the initiators of this event .

See also

literature

  • François de Gelis: Histoire critique des Jeux Floraux depuis leur origine jusq'à leur transformation en Académie (1323–1694) . Toulouse 1912 (new edition Geneva 1981). ISBN 2-05-100296-7
  • Literary society in Cologne (ed.): Yearbook of the Cologne flower games . Vol. 1-10 (1899-1908). Cologne 1900–1908
  • Frédéric Ségu: L'Académie des Jeux Floraux et le romantisme de 1818 à 1824 d'après des documents inédits . Vol. 1/2. Paris 1935 f.
  • The first Cologne Flower Games - "Jeux floraux" in: Old and New World, Illustrated Catholic Family Gazette, 33rd year, anthology, 1898/99, 736 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 8th Cologne Flower Games , accessed on May 22, 2014.
  2. ↑ Detailed information about the Cologne Flower Games: Yearbook of the Cologne Flower Games, vol. 1. 1899 (1900) - 16. 1914. ZDB -ID 973319-x
  3. ^ The first Baltimore Flower Games. In: Yearbook of the Cologne Flower Games, vol. 6. 1904 (1905), pp. 383–398.
  4. ↑ The Baltimore Flower Game 1904. Price and dedication poems. Edited by the Germania Club of the City of Baltimore. Baltimore, 1904.