Johann Steinwert from Soest

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Johann Steinwert von Soest , actually Johann Grumelkut, (* 1448 in Unna ; † May 2, 1506 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a singer , poet and doctor.

Johann Steinwert von Soest and his patron Philipp

Life

Johann von Soest was born in Unna (Westphalia) in 1448. The father Rotscher (Roger) Grumelkut was a stonemason from Unna, the mother Wendel Husselin came from Werl. Soest had two younger brothers. The father died when Soest was three years old. 1457 he was singing students at Patroklusstift in Soest . As early as 1460, due to his special talent in solmization and polyphony, he was promoted to singer in the court orchestra of Duke Johann I von Kleve-Mark . From there he went to Bruges for a short time ; then he became a Capellon in Hardenberg Abbey (Overijssel) . Then he was employed in Maastricht at the collegiate or chapter church “Our Lady” as a succentor . There he lived dissolute.

When he decided to travel to Rome, he was intercepted in Cologne by Hermann, the provost of St. Gereon , a son of the Landgrave of Hesse ( Archbishop of Cologne from 1480 ) and recommended to Ludwig II of Hesse at the Kassel court. There he worked as a singing master . After the death of Louis (1471) Johann Stein value moved on to Heidelberg , where he headed the choir at the court of Elector Frederick I took over. Clara Tott , the musically committed wife of the ruler, had campaigned for his employment.

In 1476 Steinwert began studying medicine, which he completed in 1490. He then worked in Worms and Frankfurt am Main, where he settled in 1500, as a city ​​doctor .

Probably in 1480 the singer and poet completed the translation of the Limburg novel from Flemish. He dedicated it to the elector Philip . In literary studies, Johann von Soest found particular attention as a translator of Dutch models (such as the Haimons children's poem The Children of Limburg , originally by Hein van Aken, which was translated around 1470 ). Von Soest was regionally popular and known for his “Spruchgedicht” in honor of the city of Frankfurt, which he published in 1501: Eyn Spruchgedicht zu praise and eer der Statt Franckfortt . Rosenfeld and Koller ascribe to him the translation of the danse macabre from 1485, which was later printed by Knoblochtzer and whose handwritten version (Kassel) was supposedly dedicated to Count Palatine Philipp .

Soest left an autobiography from 1504 in poem form, which provided the basis for a psychological biography of the author.

Works

  • The children of Limburg. Manfred Klett (ed.). Ed. according to Cod. Pal. Germ. 87, Vienna 1975 (Viennese works on Germanic antiquity and philology 1974, 4)
  • Eyn saying to praise and eer der Statt Franckfortt from 1501, reproduced in Zülch (see below)
  • Dy gemeyn bicht von 1483, 'a rhymed confessional mirror in almost 1200 German verses' (German literature from the late Middle Ages to the Baroque. Part one. The outgoing Middle Ages, Humanism and Renaissance, 1370–1520, by Hans Ruppich. Second edition revised by Hedwig Heger. Beck, Munich 1994, p. 63)
  • Wy men wol ein instead of regyrn sol, damytt sy lang persistent blyb from 1495 (cf. ibid.)
  • Defense of the Immaculate Conception of Mary (1502, cf.ibid.)
  • Libellus salutis (1493, cf.ibid.)
  • Autobiography (around 1505, see ibid.)

literature

  • Rita Schlusemann: Beautiful Histories: Dutch Novels in the German Late Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Age. Berlin / Boston 2016.
  • Klaus Pietschmann , Steven Rozenski: Singing the Self: the Autobiography of the fifteenth-century German singer and composer Johannes von Soest. In: Early Music History. Vol. 29 (2010), pp. 119–159 ( PDF; 728 kB ).
  • Rita Schlusemann: The ir begyr wolt hold reyn. To the reception of the "Limborch" novel at Johann von Soest. In: Amsterdam Contributions to Older German Studies. 47: 175-196 (1997).
  • Martina Backes: The literary life at the Electoral Palatinate court in Heidelberg in the 15th century. A contribution to patron research in the late Middle Ages (= Hermaea. Vol. 68). Tübingen 1992.
  • Horst Brunner: Johann von Soest, Willibald Pirckheimer - two case studies. In: Walter Haug , Burghart Wachinger (ed.): Author types (= Fortuna Vitrea. Vol. 6). Tübingen 1991, pp. 89-103.
  • Hartmut Beckers: Early New High German versions of Dutch narrative literature in the vicinity of the Palatine court in Heidelberg around 1450/80. In: Elly Cockx-Indestege, Frans Hendrickx (Ed.): Miscellanea Neerlandica. Volume 2, Löwen 1987, pp. 237-249.
  • Helmut Birkhan : The origin of the Limburg novel by Johann von Soest and its topicality. In: Studies on German Medieval Literature, Rudolf Schützeichel (Ed.), Bonn 1979, pp. 666–686.
  • Gesa Bonath: Johann von Soest. In: Author's Lexicon . 2nd edition. Part 4, 1983, col. 744-755.
  • Gesa Bonath, Horst Brunner: On Johann von Soest's adaptation of the novel “The Children of Limburg” (1480). In: Wolfgang Harms , L. Peter Johnson (ed.): German literature of the late Middle Ages. Berlin 1975, pp. 129-152.
  • Ralph Frenken: Childhood and autobiography from the 14th to 17th centuries: Psychohistorical reconstructions. Oetker-Voges, Kiel 1999, pp. 275-296.
  • Heinz-Dieter Heimann : Wy men wol eyn instead of regyrn sol. Didactic literature and professional writing by Johann von Soest, called Steinwert (=  Soester contributions. Vol. 48). Soest 1986.
  • August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben : Horae Belgicae. Studio Atque Opera Hoffmanni Fallerslebensis. Volume 2, Breslau 1837, p. 102 ff. ( Digitized version ).
  • Rudolf Jung :  Soest, Johann Steinwert v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 540 f.
  • Rainer Rudolf:  Johannes Steinwert from Soest. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 568 ( digitized version ).
  • Jürgen Schläder : Johann von Soest. Master singer and composer. In: Heinz-Dieter Heimann (Ed.): From Soest - from Westphalia. Ways and effects of migrated Westphalia in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period. Paderborn 1986, pp. 25-43.
  • Walther Karl Zülch : Johann Steinwert von Soest. The singer and doctor (1448–1506). Frankfurt am Main 1920. In it Eyn saying poem to praise and eer instead of Franckfortt .
  • German literature . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 4 . Altenburg 1858, p. 885-917 ( zeno.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ After: Helmut Birkhan: The emergence of the Limburg novel by Johann von Soest and its topicality . In: Rudolf Schützeichel (Ed.): Studies on German literature in the Middle Ages . Bouvier-Verlag Grundmann, Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-416-01487-1 , p. 671 ff .
  2. ↑ Linda Maria Koldau : Women - Music - Culture. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-412-24505-4 , p. 576 ( scan from the source ).
  3. ^ Works based on: author's lexicon, vol. 4: Johann Steinwert von Soest.
  4. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Kahlfuss, Birgitt Hilberg (ed.): The manuscripts of the comprehensive university library Kassel, state library and Murhard library of the city of Kassel . tape 2 + 4 . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-447-03354-1 ( google.de [accessed on January 30, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Erwin Koller : Dance of Death. Attempt a text description . Innsbruck 1980, ISBN 3-85124-077-4 , p. 432 .
  6. ↑ See Ralph Frenken: Childhood and Autobiography from the 14th to 17th Century: Psychohistorische Reconstructions . Oetker-Voges, Kiel 1999, ISBN 3-9804322-5-4 , p. 275-296 .
personal data
SURNAME Johann Steinwert from Soest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grumelkut, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Singer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1448
PLACE OF BIRTH Unna
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1506
Place of death Frankfurt am Main