Albrecht (poet of the "Younger Titurel")

Albrecht (born before 1270; died after 1270) was a Middle High German poet . He is the author of the so-called Younger Titurel (created around 1260–75), a supplement and continuation of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Titurel fragments .

Life

There is little information about the life of Albrecht, all taken from his own work: According to this, he was married, had at least one child and a brother, and was no longer young when his novel was written. He had extensive knowledge, mastered the Latin and probably also the French language. Research is divided on Albrecht's place of birth; there are reasonable assumptions for a Bavarian as well as a Central German origin. Albrecht wrote on behalf of patrons - and made this clear in his texts.

plant

The sang verse epic, for which a contemporary melody has been passed down, contains over 6300 four-line stanzas in the form of the so-called titular stanza . In a mannerist manner, it reinforces many of the style features typical of Wolfram's role model, such as the dark mysteriousness and erudition. Apparently it was precisely because of this flowery speech that the work was in great esteem among contemporaries and even more so among subsequent generations. Albrecht writes in Wolfram's mask. Therefore, the younger Titurel was considered to be the work of Wolfram until modern times and was the main German book for the late medieval literary connoisseur Jakob Püterich von Reichertshausen (epitome of all German poetry). Only in stanza 5883 does the author give up the Wolfram mask and reveal himself as Albrecht .

In 1812 August Wilhelm Schlegel discovered (after the preliminary work in Bernhard Joseph Docen's essay Titurel's missive ) that the Elder Titurel (the fragments) came from Wolfram, which finally ruled out his authorship on the Younger Titurel .

Scientific controversy about the identity with Albrecht von Scharfenberg

The identity of Albrecht with an otherwise unknown Albrecht von Scharfenberg , whom Ulrich Fuetrer cites as the source of his work several times in his book of adventures in the 15th century, has been scientifically taken for granted since 1809, but has been repeatedly discussed and questioned in Germanistic Mediaevistics . Since the end of the 20th century, however, it has generally been assumed that there are two different poets, even if they deal with the same material and sometimes use the same sources.

expenditure

First print (in folio) by Johannes Mentelin in Strasbourg , 1477
first scientific edition by Karl August Hahn , Quedlinburg and Leipzig : Basse, 1842
Edition by Werner Wolf and Kurt Nyholm in use today, published within the DTM , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1955ff. (4 volumes)

literature

Thomas Neukirchen : Albrecht, author of the 'Younger Titurel'. In: Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. Vol. 1: A-Blu. Lim. v. Walther Killy. Edited by Wilhelm Kühlmann. 2nd, completely revised edition, de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-018962-9 , pp. 75–78.
Dietrich Huschenbett: Albrecht, poet of the 'Younger Titurel'. In: Kurt Ruh u. a. (Ed.): The German literature of the Middle Ages, author's lexicon . Second, completely revised edition, Volume 1. Verlag De Gruyter , Berlin / New York 1978/2010 (VL ² ), ISBN 978-3-11-022248-7 , Sp. 158-173.
Hellmut Rosenfeld: Albrecht. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 176 f. ( Digitized version ).
Paul Hamburger: Albrecht von Scharfenberg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 583-586.

Web links

Manuscript census , complete directory of authors / works; Albrecht: 'Younger Titurel'.

Remarks

↑ after Dietrich Huschenbett 1978 (2010): Albrecht, Dichter des 'Jüngeren Titurel' , VL ² , Volume 1, Col. 158–160.
↑ Hellmut Rosenfeld: Albrecht , NDB , 1, 1953, p. 176 f .; accessed August 19, 2020.
↑ cf. on this Dietrich Huschenbett 1978 (2010): Albrecht von Scharfenberg , VL ² , Volume 1, Col. 204-206.
^ Albrecht von Scharfenberg . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 1, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 301.
^ Albrecht von Scharfenberg . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 1, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 301.

personal data
SURNAME	Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Albrecht, poet of the younger Titurel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Middle High German poet
DATE OF BIRTH	12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH	13th century or 14th century

[1] ter Dietrich Huschenbett 1978 (2010): Albrecht, Dichter des 'Jüngeren Titurel' , VL ² , Volume 1, Col. 158–160.

[2] Hellmut Rosenfeld: Albrecht , NDB , 1, 1953, p. 176 f .; accessed August 19, 2020.

[3] . on this Dietrich Huschenbett 1978 (2010): Albrecht von Scharfenberg , VL ² , Volume 1, Col. 204-206.

[4] Albrecht von Scharfenberg . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 1, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 301.

[5] Albrecht von Scharfenberg . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 1, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 301.