Gottfried of Strasbourg
Gottfried von Strasbourg († around 1215) was one of the most important German-speaking poets of the Middle Ages . He lived at the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century and was a contemporary of Hartmann von Aue , Wolfram von Eschenbach and Walther von der Vogelweide .
life and work
No documents have been received from the Alsatian Gottfried, so that a detailed reconstruction of his life is not possible. The Middle High German epic poet Rudolf von Ems provides the earliest and most important information . In his work Der guote Gêrhart he explicitly names Gottfried von Strasbourg as the author of his main work Tristan , who influenced the Guote Gêrhart . Gottfried's Tristan , a verse novel that was created around 1210 and has remained a fragment, is an adaptation of the Tristan and Isolde material . In another work by Rudolf, the Alexander , Gottfried is cited as an epic poet and poet with reference to a verse from the Great Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse), which, however , is attributed to Ulrich von Liechtenstein .
In research it is certain that Gottfried had a comprehensive education that went beyond the trivium and was familiar with both courtly literature and the intelligentsia of the 12th century. It is likely that Gottfried was of non-aristocratic origin and took on secular duties as a cleric. As can be seen from the Tristan, he worked for his patron Dieterich , who came from the Strasbourg upper class.
Gottfried possibly enjoyed a university education in Paris or Bologna and had knowledge of contemporary Latin scripts.
Gottfried probably died before the completion of his Tristan between 1210 and 1220.
Preserved works
- Tristan (Gottfried of Strasbourg)
- Some lyrical poems in the Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift
literature
- Reinhold Bechstein: Gottfried von Strasbourg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 502-506.
- Hugo Kuhn : Gottfried of Strasbourg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , pp. 672-676 ( digitized version ).
- Diem, Albrecht, 'Nu suln ouch wir Gesellen sîn, On beauty, friendship and male-male love in Tristan Gottfrieds von Straßburg', in: Lev Mordechai Thoma and Sven Limbeck (eds.), “The sin that is ashamed of tuivel in the bright ”. Homosexuality in the culture of the Middle Ages and early modern times , Stuttgart: Thorbecke Verlag 2009, pp. 91–121, ISBN 978-3-7995-0223-8 .
- Christoph Huber: Gottfried of Strasbourg. Tristan. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-503-04959-2 .
- Tomas Tomasek : Gottfried von Strasbourg . Reclam, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-017665-8 .
- Walter Haug : Gottfried von Strasbourg. Tristan and Isolde. Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-618-66100-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gottfried von Strasbourg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Gottfried von Strasbourg in the German Digital Library
- Gottfried von Strasbourg in the Codex Manesse
- Works by Gottfried von Strasbourg at Zeno.org .
- Works by Gottfried von Strasbourg in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( Memento from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Ulrich Goerdten)
- A Minnelied by Gottfried von Strasbourg (attribution to Gottfried doubtful): "Diu zît ist wunneclich" (MFKS 129 = KLD 16. [III )]
- Tristan and Isolde von Gottfried von Straßburg, with the continuation by Ulrich von Türheim - BSB Cgm 51 - digitized version of the manuscript in bavarikon
Remarks
- ↑ See also Bernhard Dietrich Haage: Science and educational theory reminiscences of north French schools with Gottfried von Strasbourg and Wolfram von Eschenbach. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 8, 1990, pp. 91-135.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gottfried of Strasbourg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Middle High German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1215 |