Hadewijch

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A poem by Hadewijch

Hadewijch was a mystic who lived and worked in Brabant , who wrote her works (poems, visions, letters) probably around the middle of the 13th century and is considered one of the most important authors in the Central Dutch language. The central concept in her work is love , understood as the mystical love between God and man. She had an impact on Jan van Ruusbroec .

Life

Very little is known about their life. There is no biography, the only source are her traditional works. It is believed that she presided over a community of beguines or at least directed her writings to a circle of beguines. Her works speak of a knowledge of the Latin language and her songs reveal familiarity with the art of minstrel.

Fonts

The surviving work consists of 31 letters, a poetry collection with 16 authentic poems (of the 29 "mixed poems", poems 17 to 29 are certainly considered spurious), 45 strophic songs, 14 visions, and the "list of perfect ones" attached to the visions ".

expenditure

  • The works of Hadewych ( publisher / translator Joseph Otto Plassmann ), Hagen iW / Darmstadt 1923
  • De Visioenen van Hadewych (Ed. Jozef van Mierlo), 2 volumes, Leuven 1924/1925
  • Strofische Gedichten (Ed. Jozef van Mierlo), 2 volumes, Antwerp 1942
  • Brieven (Ed. Jozef van Mierlo), 2 volumes, Antwerp 1947
  • Mengelichten (Ed. Jozef van Mierlo), Antwerp 1952
  • Hadewijch. The Book of Visions (Ed / Over. Gerald Hofmann) ( Mysticism in Past and Present , I, 12/13), 2 parts, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1998
  • Book of letters (publisher / translator Gerald Hofmann), St. Ottilien 2010
  • Hadewijch: songs . Original text, commentary, translation and melodies (Eds. Veerle Fraeters / Frank Willaert / Louis Peter Grijp; transl. Rita Schlusemann), Berlin: de Gruyter 2016 ISBN 978-3-05-005671-5

Radio play editing

  • Medievalist Hildegard Elisabeth Keller integrated Hadewijch as one of five main female characters in the trilogy of the timeless , which was published at the end of September 2011. Selected passages from Hadewijch's letters and visions have been included in the radio play The Ocean in the Thimble . In the fictional encounter Hadewijch talks to Hildegard von Bingen (she is listed in Hadewijch's "List of Perfect"), Mechthild von Magdeburg and Etty Hillesum.

literature

  • Esther Heszler: The mystical process in Hadewijch's work. Aspects of experience, aspects of presentation Ulm University Press, 1994, ISBN 978-3-89559-060-3 (Dissertation University of Tübingen 1992, 195 pages).
  • Raymond Jahae, settle for insufficiency . On the mystical experience of Hadewijch , Leuven, 2000
  • John Giles Milhaven : Hadewijch and her sisters: other ways of loving and knowing, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993
  • Paul Mommaers: Hadewijch In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author's Lexicon Third Volume, 1981, Sp. 368–378
  • Paul Mommaers: Hadewijch. Schrijfster, begijn, mystica , Leuven, 2003
  • Kurt Ruh : History of occidental mysticism, second volume, CH Beck, Munich, 1993, pp. 158–232
  • Frank Willaert: Hadewijch In: Johannes Thiele (ed.): My heart melts like ice on fire: the religious women's movement of the Middle Ages in portraits , Stuttgart, 1988, pp. 110–124
  • Hildegard Elisabeth Keller : The ocean in a thimble. Hildegard von Bingen, Mechthild von Magdeburg, Hadewijch and Etty Hillesum in conversation. With contributions by Daniel Hell and Jeffrey F. Hamburger. Zurich 2011 (trilogy of the timeless 3). ISBN 978-3-7281-3437-0
  • Klaus-Gunther Wesseling:  Hadewijch (Hadewych) of Antwerp. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 18, Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , Sp. 549-563.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

proof

  1. ^ Frank Willaert: Article Hadewijch in the Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland (DVN)
personal data
SURNAME Hadewijch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hadewych; Hadwij; Hadewijck; Hadewich; Hadwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mystic, poet of the Middle Dutch language
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH 13th century or 14th century