Konrad von Fußesbrunnen

Konrad von Fußesbrunnen is a Lower Austrian poet of the late 12th century. He was a member of a noble family (son of a Gerung von Fußesbrunnen) resident in today's Feuersbrunn (municipality of Grafenwörth , Lower Austria ) and is documented around 1182 and 1187, respectively.

He is the author of the work "The Childhood of Jesus" composed in 3000 Middle High German rhyming verses . According to the prologue, he was already active as a secular author (cf. v. 82-90); but these texts have not come over us today. The author Konrad von Fußesbrunnen is mentioned again in Wilhelm von Orlens by Rudolf von Ems . No further biographical data are known.

Konrad von Fußesbrunnen was considered (with purely speculative arguments) as the author of the “ Nibelungenlied ”, but this was never seriously discussed in German research.

literature

Hans Fromm: Konrad von Fußesbrunnen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 538 f. ( Digitized version ).
Hans Fromm: Article in: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Vol. 5 (1985) col. 172-175; Volume 11 (2004). Sp. 877.
Hans Fromm / Klaus Grubmüller: Introduction. In: Konrad von Fußesbrunnen, The Childhood of Jesus. Edited by dens., Berlin a. a. 1973, pp. 1-70.
Elias von Steinmeyer: Fußesbrunnen, Konrad von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, pp. 255 f.

Web links

Literature by and about Konrad von Fußesbrunnen in the catalog of the German National Library
Manuscript census: Konrad von Fußesbrunnen: Childhood of Jesus
Entry on Konrad von Fußesbrunnen in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Entry on Konrad von Fußesbrunnen in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

personal data
SURNAME	Konrad von Fußesbrunnen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Middle High German spiritual poet
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1182
DATE OF DEATH	12th century or 13th century