The twelve old masters

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The "twelve old masters" (top left), Johann Weidhofer, Iglauer Postenbrief 1612

The twelve old masters were revered as role models in the Meistersang . The following poets were among the twelve old masters:

This catalog of twelve of exemplary poets was important for the Mastersingers as a means of linking their art with the old and the authenticated. The list of names was part of the so-called "original legend" of the master song. The list of names goes back to Lupold Hornburg from Würzburg , it has undergone several changes and extensions in later times.

literature

  • Nikolaus Henkel: The twelve old masters . Observations on the creation of the catalog. In: Contributions to the history of the German language and literature (PBB). Volume 1987, Issue 109, pp. 375-389.
  • H. Brunner: The old masters. Studies on the transmission of the Middle High German song poets in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period . Munich 1975.
  • C. Hayden Bell, EG Gudde (Ed.): The Poems of Lupold Hornburg . Berkeley, Los Angeles 1945.
  • Th. Cramer (Ed.): The smaller song poets of the 14th and 15th centuries . 1979 (Lupold Hornburg in Volume 2, p. 61f.)