Oswald von Wolkenstein Society

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Logo of the OvW Society
German literature archive in Marbach am Neckar, the place where the OvW Society was founded
Cover of the 22nd volume of the yearbook of the OvW Society
Website (home page) of the OvW Society

The Oswald von Wolkenstein Society is a non-profit association for research into the life and work of the South Tyrolean poet singer Oswald von Wolkenstein (approx. 1376 / 77–1445) and the culture of the European late Middle Ages. It has an interdisciplinary and international focus and is therefore a global forum for all research into the late Middle Ages. Her main tasks include the organization of scientific conferences and the publication of a yearbook.

The headquarters of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society eV has been based in Augsburg since May 2018 . It has its own website on the Internet. The first chairwoman has been Ingrid Bennewitz from Bamberg since 2019 .

founding

The idea of ​​founding an association had already arisen in the 1960s and 1970s, when efforts were increasingly being made to develop the life and work of Oswald von Wolkenstein. The so-called Oswald circulars, of which a total of 5 issues appeared between June 1972 and March 1975, provided information on ongoing research. They were initially edited and sent by Ulrich Müller, from the third circular onwards, Hans Dieter Mück also took part in the editing . Two conferences (1973 in Neustift near Brixen and 1977 in Seis am Schlern), from which two anthologies (published 1974 and 1978) emerged, also brought a visible upswing for the up-and-coming Oswald research.

Inspired by George F. Jones, who had already campaigned for the Oswald circulars, and initiated by Hans-Dieter Mück and Ulrich Müller, the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society was finally founded. The founding meeting was held on 21./22. March 1980 in the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar .

Members

Just 1 ½ years after it was founded, the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society had 221 members. Today it has more than 450 members worldwide, including medievalists from all disciplines and around 100 libraries that subscribe to the Society's yearbook. In principle, all interested persons can join; the required form can be downloaded from the company's website.

The board consists of the following people:

Ingrid Bennewitz First chair
Bernd Bastert Second chairman
Martin Schubert executive Director
Holger Runow Treasurer
Wernfried Hofmeister Head of the Graz 'Wolkenstein Archive'
Sieglinde Hartmann Editor of the yearbook

As chairman of the advisory board, Horst Brunner acts as an advisor to the board.

Research interest

The research interest of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society is v. a. Focused on two core areas: On the one hand, the focus is, of course, on researching the life and work of its namesake, whereby the recording and interpretation of the modern Oswald reception is also taken into account. On the other hand, the association deals extensively with the history and culture of the epoch in which Oswald von Wolkenstein lived and worked. This is obvious not least because the well-known late medieval knight, poet and singer can be seen as a “personality of pan-European significance”.

Meetings

The first meeting of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society took place as part of its founding meeting and was held on the subject of the “Symposium on Literature of the Late Middle Ages”. It was reported in ORF , the Marbacher Zeitung from March 24th and 25th, the Stuttgarter Zeitung from March 25th. and the Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 29 and 30, 1980.

Since then, the association invites every two years to scientific conferences or symposia and colloquia , whereby general topics as well as individual authors are dealt with. For example, at a conference in Bressanone from September 26th to 30th, 2007, the focus was on “Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519) and the court culture of his time”. For another symposium organized by the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society in April 2013, "The spiritual game in the European Middle Ages" was chosen as the theme. From September 25 to 29, 2019, the conference on “(V) fictitious lives. Literary Patterns of Life in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times (13th-16th Century) ”.

In order to make the scientific questions accessible to a larger group of audiences and interested parties, additional public lectures are held and concerts and exhibitions are organized as part of the conferences. So you could z. B. in August / September 2009 - matching the topic of the conference - to visit an exhibition about Konrad von Megenberg in the Episcopal Central Library in Regensburg and also had the opportunity to get to know European vocal music from Megenberg's time at a concert by Eberhard Kummer . As part of the Admont conference in 2013, scenes from the 'Admont Passion Play' were performed in public.

Furthermore, the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society participates in many other Medieval Symposia and is also constantly represented with lecture sections on current issues in medieval research at the two largest Medieval Congresses in the world, which are held in the USA ( Kalamazoo ) and Great Britain ( Leeds ) occur.

Yearbook of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society (JOWG)

In addition to organizing scientific conferences, one of the main tasks of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society is to publish a yearbook. First, the JOWG was self-published and distributed independently. Since 2009 it has appeared as a conference proceedings, published by the respective organizers. Volume 3 (1984/85), 9 (1996/97) and 19 (2012) have been devoted exclusively to the South Tyrolean poet singer.

Volumes

So far, the following 22 volumes of the JOWG ( ISSN  0722-4311 ) have been published, of which volumes 1–16 can be viewed as OCR-read digital copies via the archive of the Graz University Library :

  • Vol. 1 1980/1981: Literature of the late Middle Ages , contributions to the founding symposium
  • Vol. 2 1982/1983: Late medieval culture in Tyrol
  • Vol. 3 1984/1985: interpretations of songs and poems by Oswald von Wolkenstein
  • Vol. 4 1986/1987: Literature and culture around 1400
  • Vol. 5 1988/1989: Konrad von Würzburg . Its time, its work, its effect
  • Vol. 6 1990/1991: Literature and culture of the Middle Ages and the early modern period in the Thuringian-Saxon region
  • Vol. 7 1992/1993: Literature and urban culture in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period
  • Vol. 8 1994/1995: Heinrich Wittenwiler in Konstanz and the ring
  • Vol. 9 1996/1997: Oswald von Wolkenstein and the turning point towards the modern age - balance sheet and perspectives of research
  • Vol. 10 1998: Medieval literature in the Low German area
  • Vol. 11 1999: Contributions from the international mediaeval congresses in Kalamazoo (USA) and Leeds (GB) 1996-1998
  • Vol. 12 2000: Balance sheet of late medieval research
  • Vol. 13 2001/2002: Apocalypse, land of plenty, turn of the millennium, Millennium Symposium 2000
  • Vol. 14 2003/2004: Dietrichepik
  • Vol. 15 2005: Medieval literature - today and tomorrow: problems of relevance, perspectives for the future
  • Vol. 16 2006/2007: German- Scandinavian literary and cultural relations in the Middle Ages
  • Vol. 17 2008/2009: Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) and the court culture of his time
  • Vol. 18 2010/2011: Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374): A late medieval " encyclopedia " in a European context
  • Vol. 19 (2012): Oswald von Wolkenstein in the context of the art of song of his time.
  • Vol. 20 (2014/2015): The Spiritual Game of the European Late Middle Ages.
  • Vol. 21 (2016/2017): Sangspruchdichtung between Reinmar von Zweter, Oswald von Wolkenstein and Michel Beheim.
  • Vol. 22 (2018/2019): Romania and Germania. Cultural and literary exchange processes in the late Middle Ages and early modern times.

All contributions in the individual volumes are listed on the website of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society with the author and title.

Website

The club's website, which is partly multilingual (German, English, French), is of great use to both scientists and broader, non-scientific groups. In addition to detailed information about the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society itself, conferences are continuously announced there and reviews of events that have already taken place are recorded. Thanks to the wide range of offers on this website, you can learn a great deal about the poet whose name society bears without lengthy research.

It is particularly noteworthy that many texts and materials by and about Oswald von Wolkenstein are made available to interested readers free of charge. Oswald's life and work, his work and its tradition are not only described and interpreted, but also partially presented directly on the website. So you can z. B. his autobiographical song Es fits into the standard scientific edition by Karl Kurt Klein together with the New High German translation by Sieglinde Hartmann read online. And all other songs that appeared in the KK Klein edition can also be found here. In some cases they can even be used with translations into English, French and Hungarian. The lemmatized online version of Oswald's songs by Margarete Springeth is also available in the Middle High German Term Database (MHDBDB) and can be found there in addition to the material made available by the MHDBDB on the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society's website for research and research Teaching are used. The discography of the settings of the Oswald songs and a bibliography, which can also be found on the website of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society, is also interesting .

archive

The archive of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society is located in the department for special collections of the University Library Graz and is looked after by Wernfried Hofmeister. It is a collection of materials relating to Oswald's life and work, his time and also the history and regional studies of Tyrol and South Tyrol. This includes u. a. Monographs , journals, articles, diploma theses and dissertations ; Image and sound carriers are also recorded in the holdings of the Wolkenstein Archives.

In addition to the yearbooks 1–16, a. the following e-resources are available:

literature

  • Horst Brunner: About the first yearbook. In: Hans-Dieter Mück, Ulrich Müller (Hrsg.): Yearbook of Oswald von Wolkensteingesellschaft. 1980/81. Vol. 1. Wiesbaden 1981, ISSN  0722-4311 , pp. 3-6.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The OvW-Gesellschaft website is available at http://www.wolkenstein-gesellschaft.com/ .
  2. ↑ Membership. on: wolkenstein-gesellschaft.com
  3. ↑ Ingrid Bennewitz
  4. ↑ Bernd Bastert
  5. ↑ Martin Schubert
  6. ↑ Holger Runow
  7. ↑ Wernfried Hofmeister
  8. ^ Sieglinde Hartmann
  9. ↑ Horst Brunner
  10. ↑ Wolkenstein's testimonies and its pan-European significance . Website of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
  11. ^ Archives of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society - Index
  12. ^ Yearbook of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society. on: wolkenstein-gesellschaft.com
  13. ↑ http://www.wolkenstein-gesellschaft.com/texte_oswald.php
  14. ↑ For the entire contents of the archive, see the archive of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society