Lutwin (Author)

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Liutwin or Lutwin (dates unknown) is the author of the Adam poetry "Adam and Eve" (also called "Eve and Adam"), which was written in the 14th century. He is only known through his self-naming in the Adam poetry. The apocryphal "Vita Adae et Evae" is assumed to be the main source for his poetry . Lutwin pursued a particularly secularizing approach and gave Eva a dominant position in the course of the plot in poetry.

Seal "Adam and Eve"

The poetry can be divided into five sections: prologue, biblical fall, life of the protoplasts in the world after the expulsion from paradise, the story of the legend of the crucifix, and a short epilogue. Lutwin's poem is characterized by narrative comments that repeatedly return to courtly topoi . A tension arises between well-known love formulas and narrative reality, which is heightened by ironic elements.

In the poetry, motifs from the “Wigalois” of the innkeeper von Grafenberg as well as from “Unser vrouven hinvart” by Konrad von Heimesfurt can be found .

Self-naming of the poet

“The book has thihtet,
with rymen wol berihtet.
He is called Lutwin.
Sin namen is lutzel somebody recognized, that
makes sin great disaster
And sin sick synne a part / that
he is not sick. "(V. 57-63)

Text history

The poem has survived in only one manuscript, contains 3939 rhyming verses and 29 illustrations. The illustrations are a rarity. In them Adam's life is shown cyclically.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murdoch, Brian: Lutwin. In: Ruh, Kurt (ed.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author's Lexicon, Vol. 5. Berlin 1985, pp. 1088 f.
  2. ↑ Murdoch, Brian: Lutwin. In: Ruh, Kurt (ed.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon. Vol. 5. Berlin 1985, p. 1089.
  3. ↑ Mary-Bess Halford, Lutwin's 'Eve and Adam'. Study - Text - Translation (Göppingen Papers on German Studies 401), Göppingen 1984, p. 103.
  4. ^ Gary A. Anderson, Michael E. Stone: Lutwin's Eve and Adam. In: The Life of Adam and Eve: The Biblical Story in Judaism and Christianity. Retrieved October 10, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Huber, Christoph: Lutwin. In: Killy, Walther (ed.): Literature Lexicon. Authors and works of the German language, Vol. 7. Munich 1990, p. 410.
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SURNAME Lutwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liutwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, author of the Adam seal
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH 14th century or 15th century