Heinrich von dem Türlin

Heinrich von dem Türlin was a Middle High German epic writer in the first half of the 13th century.

Life

The poet is probably of Bavarian-Austrian origin. The name form of the Türlin is documented in Carinthia ( St. Veit an der Glan ) and East Tyrol ( Lienz ), but whether he belonged to the Carinthian bourgeois family de Portula or from the Turlin from St. Veit an der Glan is disputed.

Heinrich von dem Türlin: Diu Crône. Heidelberg, UB, cpg 374, 1r.

Diu Crone

The only work that can be safely assigned to Heinrich is the Arthurian novel Diu Crône (The Crown). The text can be dated to approx. 1230; In terms of time, it is classified after the death of Hartmann von Aue (approx. 1210/1220) and before Rudolf von Ems "Alexander" (approx. 1240).

The text has been handed down in a complete manuscript and 6 fragments, one of which has been lost. Only the Heidelberg cpg 374 with around 30,000 rhyming verses offers a complete tradition. In it the name of Heinrich von dem Türlin is given in the form of an acrostic .

A number of individual trades stand side by side: They tell the adventures of the Knights of the Round Table: The first part therefore deals with King Arthur. This prepares for a duel, because Queen Ginover of Gasozein is contested with him.

Gawein, who is not in the king's entourage, but on âventiure, provides the material for the following verses: After he has freed Ginover, who was kidnapped by Gasozein, after he was released from the captivity of Minne with Queen Amurfina. He also resolved a number of other conflicts, such as an inheritance dispute between Amurfina and her sister. Ultimately, his path also leads him via the palace of Frau Saelde to the island of the virgins, where he is blessed with eternal youth.

The text ends with a big party after Gawein has also freed the Grail Society.

Diu Crône is handed down in the following manuscripts and fragments:

Cologne, University and City Bibl., Cod. 5 P 62

Heidelberg, University Library, Cod. Pal. germ. 374

Vienna, Austria Nationalbibl., Cod. 2779

Berlin, Staatsbibl., Mgf 923 No. 9

Schwäbisch Hall, city library, without sign. [Lost]

Kiel, University Library, Ms. KB 48l

The coat

It is controversial whether the fragment of the novel The Coat also comes from Heinrich von dem Türlin. The coat is an adaptation of the legend of the magic coat, which only fits a chaste woman. The text is only preserved as a fragment in the Ambraser Heldenbuch , where it 'replaces' the missing beginning of Hartmann's Erec novel.

Narrated in: Vienna, Austria. Nationalbibl., Cod. Ser. nova 2663 (Ambraser Heldenbuch), 28ra-30rb.

expenditure

• Gottlob Heinrich Friedrich Scholl (ed.): Diu Crone , (= library of the literary association in Stuttgart; Volume 27) Stuttgart 1852, unaltered reprint Amsterdam 1966
• Felder, Gudrun (ed.): Diu Crône. Critical Middle High German reading edition with explanations , Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-11-018627-7
• Fritz Peter Knapp, based on preliminary work by Alfred Ebenbauer (ed.): Heinrich von dem Türlin / Die Krone , 2 volumes, (= Old German Text Library; volumes 112 and 118), Tübingen 2000 and 2005 ISBN 3-484-20212-2 and 3 -484-20218-1
• The coat: fragment of a lance tetroman by Heinrich von dem Türlin, together with a copy of the legend of the drinking horn and coat and the source of the crown , edited by Otto Warnatsch, (= Germanistische Abhandlungen; Volume 2), Breslau 1883, reprint Hildesheim 1977
• Werner Schröder (ed.): The Ambraser coat fragment , (= meeting reports of the Scientific Society of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Volume 33, 5), Stuttgart 1995 ISBN 3-515-06836-8

literature

• Elizabeth Andersen: Heinrich von dem Tuerlin's Diu Crone and the Prose Lancelot: An Intertextual Study. (= Arthurian Literature; Volume 7), 1987
• Hartmut Bleumer: Heinrich von dem Türlin's "Crône". Form experience and conception of a late Arthurian novel. (= Munich texts and studies on German literature of the Middle Ages; Volume 112), (Zugl .: Münster (Westphalia), Univ., Diss., 1997), Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-484-89112-2 .
• Christoph Cormeau: “Wigalois” and “Diu Crone”. Two chapters on the genre history of the post-classical Aventiur novel. (= Munich texts and studies on German literature of the Middle Ages; Volume 57), (Zugl .: München, Univ., Habil.-Schr.), Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7608-3357-8 .
• Gudrun Felder: Commentary on Heinrich von dem Türlin's "Crône". (Zugl .: Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 2005), Berlin, New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018595-4 .
• Lewis Jillings: Diu Crone of Heinrich von dem Türlein. The attempted emancipation of secular narrative. (= Göppingen works on German studies; No. 258), (Zugl .: London, Univ., Diss., 1977), Göppingen 1980, ISBN 3-87452-424-8 .
• Matthias Meyer: The availability of fiction. Interpretations and poetological investigations on the Arthurian novel and the aventiuric Dietrichepik of the 13th century. (= Germanic-Romance monthly journal: supplement; Volume 12), (Zugl .: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 1991), Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-8253-0176-1 .
• Samuel Singer :  Heinrich von dem Türlin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 20 f.
• Tilman Spreckelsen: Hear about Gawein's exploits! Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung May 19, 2013, p. 66 ( online edition of the article ).
• Georg Steer:  Heinrich von dem Türlin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , pp. 426-428 ( digitized version ).
• Neil Thomas: Diu Crône and the Medieval Arthurian Cycle. Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-85991-636-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich von dem Türlin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Manuscript census