Heinrich the Teichner

Heinrich der Teichner (Berlin manuscript, 1472)

Heinrich der Teichner (* around 1310 ; † between 1372 and 1378 in Vienna ) was a Middle High German poet .

Heinrich, who presumably came from Carinthia , left 729 rhyming moral and punitive speeches (including “Conversation with Wisdom” ), religious sayings and legends ( “Dorothea” and “Creszentia” ) totaling 70,000 verses. As far as they can be dated, they were written between 1350 and 1370. The mostly short poems in simple verse were popular in his time and were widely used.

Work edition

• Heinrich Niewöhner (ed.): The poems of Heinrich des Teichner , 3 volumes, (= German texts of the Middle Ages; volumes 44, 46 and 48), Berlin 1953–1956

literature

• Klaus Berg:  Heinrich the Teichner. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 425 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Heribert Bögl: Social views in Heinrich dem Teichner. Kümmerle, Göppingen 1975, ISBN 3-87452-306-3 ( Göppinger works on German studies 175), (At the same time: Munich, Diss., 1975).
• Meinolf Schumacher : About the necessity of “art” for being human with Thomasin von Zerklaere and Heinrich dem Teichner. In: Ursula Schaefer (Ed.): Artes in the Middle Ages. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-003307-X , pp. 376-390 ( files from the symposium of the Mediävistenverband 7), online at MGH .
• Kurt Otto Seidel: "Change" as a world experience of the late Middle Ages in the didactic work of Heinrich des Teichner. Kümmerle, Göppingen 1973, ISBN 3-87452-212-1 ( Göppingen works on German studies 106), (also: Münster, Univ., Diss., 1973).

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich der Teichner in the catalog of the German National Library