Dietmar the Setter
Dietmar the Setzer ( Middle High German : Dietmar the Sezzer ) was a knight , traveler and poet of the 13th century .
Life
One is in the dark about his origin. The German Germanist Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen (1780–1856) suspected that Dietmar the Setzer belonged to the Austrian noble family of the Sasser. Von der Hagen also suspected that the origin could also be the Saß, Saz or Sezer in Reichenbacher and Regensburg documents. An anecdote from the Chronicon Colmariense (" Colmar Chronicle", 1242–1304), based on the report of a castle countess von Sulzmatt , tells of the vagabundus dictus Seczere or Sezarius in Alsace , which can possibly be equated with him.
In the Codex Manesse Dietmar the Setter is shown as a knight in full armor during a tournament , as he smashes the helmet and skull of another knight with his sword in front of three distinguished ladies . As a crest and coat of arms he wears a black wolf's head on golden ground . Above the picture, in front of the name, is the salutation or the title Her, i.e. Herr , which suggests a noble origin. Since Dietmar took part in the tournament, competed against a knight and could afford complete armor and equipment, he was most likely of knightly class .
Works
Dietmar's surviving four single - verse proverbs show that he used a calm and full-sounding stanza form , which he, however, occasionally varies with inner rhyme decorations; the tradition is too bad to permit a judgment on its method of interpretation. One of his verses was translated into New High German by Richard Zoozmann in his selection volume Deutsche Minnesänger (1927) .
literature
- Helmut de Boor : History of German Literature Volume III / 1, The German Literature in the Late Middle Ages 1250-1350 . Revised by Johannes Janota. 5th edition. CH Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-40378-6 , p. 385.
- Horst Brunner: Dietmar the Setter. In: The German literature of the Middle Ages - author's lexicon . 2nd edition, Volume 2. de Gruyter, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-11-007699-3 , Sp. 100f.
- Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen : Minnesinger: History of the poets and their works. Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1838. Section: Mr. Dietmar der Sezzer, pp. 486–487 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- Carl von Kraus : German song poet of the 13th century. Volume II: Commentary. 2nd edition, reviewed by Gisela Kornrumpf . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1978, ISBN 3-484-10326-4 , p. 53f.
- Gustav Roethe: Setzer, Dietmar the . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 48 f.
Web links
- Dietmar the Setter in the handwriting census of the University of Marburg
- Author's picture and verses in Codex Manesse (digital copy from Heidelberg University Library)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Gustav Roethe: Setzer, Dietmar der . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 48 f.
- ↑ a b Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen: Minnesinger: History of the poets and their works. Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1838. Section: Mr. Dietmar der Sezzer, pp. 486–487 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ^ Richard Zoozmann (transl.): Mr. Dietmar, the typesetter. In: German minnesingers in the Gutenberg-DE project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dietmar the Setter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dietmar the Sezzer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Knight and spell-poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th century or 13th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 13th century or 14th century |