Diebold Lauber
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Diebold Lauber , diebolt louber , also: Diepolt Lauber (* before 1427; † after 1471) ran a writer's workshop with a manuscript trade in the middle of the 15th century in Hagenau, Alsace , which is regarded as one of the most successful of its time. The Lauber workshop produced around 80 predominantly illustrated manuscripts , including scholarly writings as well as German-language chronicles and illustrated copies of important works of medieval literature.
Live and act
Little is known about Diebold Lauber's life. He earned his living renting stables, as a clerk, copyist, editor and writing teacher. In Hagenau he is proven with his workshop and its production between 1427 and 1471.
The Laubersche workshop, which emerged from the Alsatian workshop of 1418 , was by no means a small company and worked like a manufacture ; she gave orders to wage clerks and had a permanent staff of illustrators . Handwritten evidence shows that Diebold Lauber had a distributor for his manuscripts; He not only produced for clients, but like his competitors in the printing industry, he also made copies for stock. The manuscripts found their buyers nationwide among the nobility and the wealthy citizens of the cities.
meaning
Lauber's workshop produced cheap paper manuscripts that were affordable for larger groups of buyers, which, in contrast to the illuminated splendid manuscripts of the past, were rather coarse and fleeting in terms of both image and text reproduction. The key was the visualization of the text in illustrations that captured action and movement; Accuracy, spatial representation or even decoration on the pages was dispensed with.
Lauber successfully sold his manuscripts on the markets; Works such as the Tristan Godfrey of Strasbourg, Charlemagne of Stricker , the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach, Wirnt Grave Mountain Wigalois or the Trojan War of Konrad von Würzburg were successful through their copies of the Lauber home with the audience.
literature
- Jakob Franck : Lauber, Diebolt . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 22-25.
- Sigrid Krämer: Lauber, Diebolt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 694 f. ( Digitized version ).
- H.-J. Schiewer: Diebold Lauber . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 3, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-7608-8903-4 , Sp. 986.
- Lieselotte E. Saurma : Late forms of medieval book production. Illuminated manuscripts from Diebold Lauber's workshop in Hagenau. 2 vol., Wiesbaden 2001.
- Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch: The individual in a network: cooperation models in late medieval book production. In: Paths to the illuminated book. Production conditions for book illumination in the Middle Ages and early modern times. Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79491-2 , pp. 148-176, online
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lauber, Diebold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Alsatian scribe and manuscript dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1427 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1471 |