Sigune

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Sigune is a female given name . He is a nickname based on the literary model.

Sigune as a literary figure

Sigune is a figure from the Titurel (written around 1220) and Parzival (written around 1200/1210) Wolframs von Eschenbach .

She is the daughter of Kyot and Schoysiane and thus a relative of Parzival on the mother's side; namely his "germaine cosine" (cousin), as it is called in Li Contes del Graal (written approx. 1180/1190), Wolfram's old French model by Chrétien de Troyes . While the nameless cousin in Chrétien's novel only meets the hero of the story once, Wolfram in Parzival has a total of four encounters, all of which have a significant place in the story. In addition, Wolfram makes Sigune the protagonist in Titurel and tells her youth story, which is to be understood as the prehistory to the events in Parzival.

The four Sigune scenes in Parsifal (III., V., IX. And XVI. Book) show Sigune as drawn by suffering woman whose beloved knight Schionatulander in a joust was killed. Sigune shows her loyalty to the dead by lamenting for them all her life and witnessing a kind of religious marriage with the dead before God. Finally Sigune dies as an inclusion in an abandoned hermitage in prayer for the dead knight and once again proves her boundless love for Schionatulander. The burial of Sigune in the sarcophagus of Schionatulander, arranged by Parzival, symbolizes a union of the two lovers in death. The Sigune figure takes on several functions in Parzival: In addition to the personification of a new concept of the path of salvation that is contrapuntal to Parzival, it functions actively and passively as a pioneering authority for Parzival and thus gains central importance.

In the Titurel, on the other hand, the reader learns about Sigunes and Schionatulander's youth. Sigune is the protagonist of the Titurel fragments, she comes to the fore as a figure, not her role in the hero's career, as is the case in Parzival. It is a complex figure that often contains contradictions. Especially with regard to the relationship with Schionatulander, her behavior alternates between childish ignorance and that of an experienced mistress of love. In the Titurel - in contrast to Parzival - she is completely integrated into the norms of courtly love. This, however, will ultimately doom her lover, because Schionatulander dies in their ministry. This tragedy is alluded to again and again throughout the poetry, but above all in the brackish rope inscription. The question of to what extent Sigune is to blame for Schionatulander's death is controversial.

literature

  • Braunagel, Robert: Wolframs Sigune. A comparative consideration of the Sigune figure and its elaboration in "Parzival" and "Titurel" by Wolfram von Eschenbach , (= Göppinger works on German studies; Volume 662), (also: Eichstätt, Kath. Univ., Master's thesis, 1997), Göppingen 1999 ISBN 3-87452-908-8
  • Siegfried Richard Christoph: Wolfram's Sigune and the Question of Guilt, In: Germanic Review, 1981. Pages 62-69
  • Dietlinde Labusch: Studies on Wolframs Sigune , Diss. Frankfurt am Main 1959
  • Barnhard Rahn: Wolframs Sigunedichtung. An interpretation of the Titurel fragments , Zurich 1958
  • Margaret F. Richey: Schionatulander and Sigune , London 1927
  • Ludwig Wolff: Wolframs Schionatulander and Sigune , in: Wolfram von Eschenbach, ed. Heinz Rupp, Darmstadt 1966
  • Unlike Till Zmaila: Sigune's fault. An interpretation of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Sigune poetry in the context of his complete works , Diss. Freiburg 2002 ( as full text on the Internet ; PDF; 437 kB)