The wild Alexander
The wild Alexander (also Master Alexander , wrote in the middle / end of the 13th century) was an Upper German minstrel and poet . In his work, which has been handed down in a relatively narrow range, there are minneongs , corpse and song poetry .
Life
The poet, who might come from Alemannia or Switzerland , is not only represented in the Codex Manesse , where he is depicted as a rider in a red robe, with songs, but also in the Jena song manuscript . He wrote poetry towards the end of the 13th century. Research disagrees as to whether Alexander belonged to the lower nobility, but overwhelmingly assumes that he was a traveling singer.
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Songs
Four of Alexander's songs have been preserved in full, one fragmentary. He uses images that are difficult to resolve, which suggests that the author is highly educated. Alexander wrote a Christmas poem, a love corpse , which deals with the nature of Cupid and mentions the destruction of Troy , and the poem Here before we were children , one of the few depictions of childhood in contemporary poetry.
Song sample
- Owe daz after love gat (the first two stanzas)
- Owe daz after love gat
- leit so man ez tribe
- nu wil mynne and is ir advice
- daz I scribe
- She spoke against me
- scrib daz leyt if anything leyde.
- swa dearly parting with love
- true and infinite
- Miners frowen me
- I want to write this
- si live me so i live ir
- and you can sleep
- also with iamer our complaint
- minne wil unde can areas
- because we riveted through them
- short frolics and long days
Oh dear, that love brings us suffering when we look after it! Now Minne wants me to write about her. She said: Write of the greatest sorrow when lovers part, sadly and forever. // I want to write this song for my lady and me. She lives through me and I through her. We alleviate our complaint by complaining together: Minne is and can command us to experience short joy and long days through her.
Works
- A miracle in the werlde vert
- Here before we were children
- Mín trûclîchez complain (Minneleich)
- Owê daz after love gât
- Sîôn trûre
literature
- Jürgen Biel: The wild Alexander. Investigations into the literary technique of an author in the 13th century . Hamburg 1970.
- Ulrich Müller: Studies on the political poetry of the German Middle Ages . Göppingen 1974. (For Master Alexander see pp. 155–158.)
- Sabine Schmolinsky: The wild Alexander . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon . Volume 12.Gütersloh 1992, p. 328.
- Peter Kern: Master Alexander's song 'Owê, Minne'. Criticism of the conjectural criticism. In: Heimo Reinitzer (ed.): Text criticism and interpretation. Festschrift for Karl K. Polheim. Bern 1987, pp. 83-95.
- Wilhelm Wilmanns : Alexander the Wild . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 337.
- Hellmut Rosenfeld: Alexander, the wild one. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 195 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Depiction of Alexander in the Codex Manesse
- Complete digital edition: The wild Alexander in poetry of the German Middle Ages (LDM)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.answers.com/topic/der-wilde-alexander
- ↑ Web link commented out, the page is currently causing malware warning, Feb. 12, 2011
- ↑ https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848/0819
- ↑ Web link commented out, the page is currently causing malware warning, Feb. 12, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alexander, the savage |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Master Alexander; The wild Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Middle High German poet of Minnelieder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1247 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1288 |