Redentiner Easter game

The Redentiner Easter Game is a Middle Low German mystery game . The only manuscript from 1464 is in the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe.

Structure and content

The vernacular comoedia de Christi passione et resurrectione follows an Easter sermon in which the risen Christ is compared to the sun in five ways. It is conceivable that the sermon was an integral part of the performance of the game.

The game itself is a storytelling drama that is divided into three large plot sections on two levels. It describes the events between Good Friday and Easter as Christ's descent into hell and his victory over the devil and death.

The devil scenes of the Redentiner Easter play are of a striking design and poetic quality. In them, what was thematized and quoted in the main text in other Christian Easter games has already been atmospherically realized. The dramatization of the antagonism of God and the devil takes place with the help of additions to the content, which are shown in techniques such as the individualization of the main characters, the game with divergent knowledge and the constellation of characters.

Emergence

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After the scribe's note, the transcript was made in 1464 in Redentin (today part of Krusenhagen ), a farm near Wismar belonging to the Cistercian Doberan monastery . The earlier assumption that Carl Schröder expressed in his 1898 edition that the Redentiner Hofmeister, the Cistercian monk Peter Kalff , was the author is largely rejected today.

It is the view of a more recent investigation that the piece is to be seen in close connection with the Lübeck dance of death painted in 1463 and was probably also created in Lübeck , text references to the dance of death within the devil's scene support this, as do references to Lübeck within the Easter play and direct correspondences between the conclusor's speech and the preacher's speech in the dance of death.

The opposite view is supported by the fact that a lot of damage has been added to the font due to its frequent use, which could suggest that it is reading text rather than game text. Furthermore, although there are formal similarities between the Lübeck dance of death and the Redentiner Easter play, these can also be viewed as too general for the conclusion that this is a direct influence to make sense.

In addition to verses 7-10 of the 24th Psalm and the two-trophic antiphon Canticum triumphale , the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus is the main source of this Christian Easter play.

Lore

The Redentiner Easter game has survived in a single manuscript , which was acquired in Helmstedt in 1786 for the then Margravial Badische Hofbibliothek at the auction of the library of Anton Julius von der Hardt , which also contains books and manuscripts from the library of his uncle Hermann von der Hardt included. Today it belongs to the holdings of the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe (Cod. K 369).

In 1922 a performance was given in the Balver Höhle , which was highly regarded at the time, in an arrangement by Franz Hoffmeister . The occasion was the founding event of the Sauerland Heimatbund (see Balver Höhle Festival) . After the game has since received attention mainly as a linguistic monument, it was brought back to the stage in 2000 on the occasion of a colloquium by students from the Catholic University of Leuven and performed with great success in Leuven and Wismar .

The game is performed every year as part of the Easter liturgy in communities of the anthroposophical Christian community .

radio play

In 1951, the NWDR Hamburg produced a radio play version of the play under the title Dat Redentiner Osterspill . The radio processing was done by Willy Krogmann . Hans Freundt directed the film . The sound document still preserved has a playback time of 43'18 minutes. It was first broadcast on April 6, 1951 at NWDR.

Contributors: Heinz Lanker (Jesus), Erwin Wirschaz (Michael), Heinz Ladiges (Gabriel / David), Günther Dockerill (Raphael / Seth) Hartwig Sievers (Uriel / Lucifer), Willi Essmann (Satan / Sampson), Heini Kaufeld (Naptor / Knapp), Günther Siegmund (Puck), Günter Jansen (Krummenmat), Hans Mahler (Hann), Magda Bäumken (Eva), Willem Fricke (Abel), Ludwig Meybert (Jesaias), Otto Thiermann (Simeon), Walther Bullerdiek (Johannes) , Otto Schröder (Röver), Heinz Piper (Pilatus), Rudolf Beiswanger (Salomon), Walter Bockmayer (Thamar), Georg Pahl (Sadoch), Otto Lüthje (Hannas), Walter Scherau (Levi) and Heinz Roggenkamp (night watchman).

Composer and conductor: Otto Tenne Musicians: Gerhard Gregor (organ) and choir

literature

Editions

• Carl Schröder (ed.): Redentiner Easter game. North and Leipzig 1893 (Low German Monuments 5) Google Books
• Hartmut Wittkowsky (Ed.) The Redentiner Easter Game . Stuttgart: Urachhaus 1975 ISBN 3-87838-189-1
• The Redentiner Easter game in Middle Low German and High German. Translated and commented by Brigitta Schottmann. Stuttgart: Reclam 1986 (Reclams Universalbibliothek 9744) ISBN 3-15-009744-4
• Dieter Andresen: Dat Osterspeel vun speaker. Heide: Westholsteinische Verlags-Anstalt Boyens 1991 (translated into Neuniederdeutsche) ISBN 3-8042-0545-3
• Albert Freybe: The Meklenburger Easter game completed in 1464, transferred and treated. Bremen: Kühtmann 1874 (New High German transmission) digitized
• Gustav Struck , Peter Kalff: Dat öllste Mäkelbörger Osterspill. That schräben is in that Johr 1464. Rostock: Behrend & Boldt 1920
• Ernst Boldt , Friedrich Siems, Peter Kalff: Dat Redentiner Osterspill from 1464: ut de mittelnedderdütsche Sprak in Mäkelbörger Platt oewerdragen un för de Upführung trechtmakt. Music by Friedrich Siems. Wismar: Eberhardt 1928

Studies

• Maike Claußnitzer: Sub specie aeternitatis: Studies on the relationship between the historical situation and salvation history in the Redentiner Easter game. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Vienna: Lang 2007 (Mikrokosmos; Vol. 75) Zugl .: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2006. ISBN 978-3-631-56485-1 .
• Maike Claußnitzer, Hartmut Freytag, Susanne Warda: The Redentiner - a Lübeck Easter game. About the Redentiner Easter play from 1464 and the dance of death in the Marienkirche in Lübeck from 1463. In: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 132 (2003), pp. 189-238.
• Isabel Grübel: The hierarchy of the devil. Studies on the Christian image of the devil and on the allegorization of evil in theology, literature and art between the early Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation. (= Research on cultural history. Vol. 13). Munich 1991.
• Lothar Humburg: The position of the Redentiner Easter play in the tradition of the medieval spiritual drama. Neumünster: Wachholtz 1966 (language and literature: series B, 6)
• Hansjürgen Linke: The devil scenes of the Redentiner Easter game. In: Yearbook of the Association for Low German Language Research. 90 (1967). Pp. 89-105.
• Ute Obhof: Codicological and provenance- historical studies on the manuscript of the 'Redentiner Osterspiel', Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe, Cod. K (arlsruhe) 369. ( Digitized PDF; 137 kB)
• Hellmut Rosenfeld: The Redentiner Easter game - a Lübeck Easter game. In: Contributions to the history of German language and literature 74 (1952), pp. 485–491.
• Elke Ukena-Brest: Homud heft us duvele sinks in afgrunde. Superbia, devil and hell in the Redentiner Easter game. In: Leuvense bijdragen. Leuven contributions in linguistics and philology. 90 (2001). Pp. 181-214.

Web links

• Entry on the manuscript in the manuscript census
• Literature about Redentiner Easter game in the state bibliography MV

• Colloquium at the Catholic University of Leuven on the Redentiner Easter Game, 2000
• Performances of the Kumpanei Redentin
• The Redentiner Easter game in a high German version from 1874

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Maike Claussnitzer, Hartmut Freytag, Susanne Warda: Das Redentiner - a Lübeck Easter game. About the Redentiner Easter play from 1464 and the dance of death in the Marienkirche in Lübeck from 1463. In: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 132 (2003), pp. 189-238
2. ↑ http://www.ard.de/radio/hoerspielarchiv/-/id=570460/nid=570460/cf=42/wrzwf3/index.html?page_570502=aHR0cDovL3dlYi5hcmQuZGUvcmFkaW8vaG9lcnNwaWVsX2RyYS9kaXNwbGF5LnBocD9pZD04NTA4ODE2JnNpZD1jNTFybGg4NTZybXV1NzV1cDg3OXYyb2piMQ%3D%3D  ( page no longer available , searching Web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.