Lindenschmidt strophe

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The Lindenschmidtstrophe , also Lindenschmidstrophe , is a stanza form that was frequently used in German poetry in the 16th century, but afterwards it was only rarely used. It has five lines and consists of a pair of rhyming iambic verses with four accents and a male cadence , followed by two rhyming, three-part iambic verses. Another four-part iambic verse with a male cadence is inserted between these, which either takes up the rhyme of the introductory couple or remains as an orphan without rhyme . The stanza scheme is in the metric formula notation [4ma 4ma 3wb 4ma 3wb] or [4ma 4ma 3wb 4mx 3wb].

Surname

When the robber Lindenschmidt was executed in 1490, a short time later a song about him was written that was widely distributed and made him the namesake of the verse used for it. However, this had been used regularly long before, including a song about the pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels . The first verse of the Lindenschmidt song:

It's not long that it happened
that one saw the Lindenschmidt ride,
on a high horse.
He rides up and down the Rhine river;
he certainly enjoyed it.

Secular poetry

The Lindenschmidt strophe was used extensively in the 15th and 16th centuries to report remarkable historical events: the death of known and important people, battles, conquests, fires. In addition, it was used as a stanza for satirical songs and swans, for example the swank vom Fuchsfang - "I want to catch the foxes ", a woman puts twelve monks in a cellar. The first stanza:

I know a free court
there sits a rich baursman
who het a beautiful woman;
that was a smooth coin,
he thinks he wants to behave.

Spiritual poetry

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Lindenschmidt strophe was not only used for secular songs; many hymns were also composed during this time. Many of these songs were passion songs, but there were also confident songs, for example, later in the 17th century, by Paul Gerhardt . The first verse of one of his songs:

I know my god that all of my doing
And work in your will rest,
From you come happiness and blessings;
What you rule goes and stands
On the right, good paths.

Newer poetry

The baroque poetry of the 17th century hardly used the Lindenschmidt stanza for secular poems. An exception is the story of lies about the land of milk and honey, the second stanza of which goes like this:

The area is called the land of milk and honey
Is well known to lazy people
Lies behind the sugar mountains;
And do you want to go into the country
Eat your way through the midriff.

In the 18th and 19th centuries the five-line liner was only used very rarely; one of the few examples is a three-verse poem by August von Platen . The first stanza:

You birds sway in the branches,
How are you happy and fresh and frank,
And trills morning choirs:
I feel sick in my heart
When I hear from below.

The Lindenschmidt strophe became known, however, through the student song Es ist ein Wirtshaus an der Lahn , which made it well known and from which the landlady verses developed.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano: Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Edited by Heinz Rölleke, Insel, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2003, p. 593
  2. ↑ Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano: Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Edited by Heinz Rölleke, Insel, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2003, p. 119
  3. ↑ Old High and Low German folk songs, first volume. Published by Ludwig Uhland, Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1845, p. 739
  4. ^ August von Platen: Works, Volume 1. Poetry. Winkler, Munich 1982, p. 61