Conrad Silberdrat

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Conrad Silberdrat , sometimes also Konrad Silberdraht , was the poet of a historical German-language poem in 460 rhyming verses about the siege of Hohenzollern Castle in 1422 and 1423. It is only in the Donaueschingen manuscript of the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe Cod. Donaueschingen 111a (Bl. 2r – 9v).

Life

It has long been assumed that Silberdrat was based in Rottweil . Willms 1995 pointed out that this conclusion is not mandatory. However, in Silberdrat you will see the citizen of an imperial city.

Gustav Roethe writes in his ADB article: “He calls himself a master ; Silverdrat's express testimony (sic!) assures us that from this title, which may indicate scholarly status, no master-vocal training can be deduced, apart from the heterosyllabic, often heavily overloaded verses. The poet's point of view is one-sided that of the Rottweiler, the Reichsstädter: in the besieged customs count, the Oettinger, the same whose powerful heroism inspired Gustav Schwab to romance and Ludwig Laistner to a novella, he sees only the raw, lawless and dishonorable , yes even cowardly robbers. "

Silberdrat was interested in the historical representation, not the formal artistry required by the Meistersang . The author expressly distances himself from the named authorities such as Suchensinn , Regenbogen , Neidhart and Frauenlob , because he did not pay attention to the length and brevity of the verses. Germanists see in his work, which has hardly been noticed by more recent research (in more recent studies, Willms only mentions Ulrich Müller's book on political poetry in the Middle Ages), an early testimony to an awareness of the formal correctness of the Meistersang (Willms).

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SURNAME Silberdrat, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silver wire, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1423