Tristan as a monk

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Tristan als Mönch is an anonymous Middle High German verse epic with satirical or fluctuating features of the Tristan announcement from around 1250/1260 and the southwest German (Alsatian) area. It has 2705 verses rhyming in pairs.

The epic probably arose as a result of and under the influence of Gottfried von Straßburg's Tristan (1210/1220), which has remained unfinished (it ends with Tristan in exile, who married Isolde Weißhand there, but longs for the other Isolde). In addition to French sources from the 12th century, Gottfried's sources were the first German version of Eilhard von Oberge's material from around 1170, which is known only in fragments. The only direct literary reference in Tristan as a monk is to the Alsatian Reinhart Fuchs (early 13th century) and it also has features of a swank. The work also has completely different elements, such as the elaborated lamentations for the dead of Tristan. Helmut de Boor therefore saw it less as a vacillation than as an independent late court depiction. Hartmann von Aue and his Erec and Arthurian poetry were also influenced by Eilhard's and other earlier versions of Tristan. The special Minne version of the work is the subject of research.

Helmut de Boor classifies the work before 1260; after that the influence of Konrad von Würzburg would have been too great.

Manuscripts

There are two manuscripts:

  • Manuscript R from the middle of the 15th century (around 1435), with pen drawings (Diebald Laubers workshop), Brussels, Bibl. Royale , Ms. 14697. In the manuscript it is between Gottfried's Tristan and the continuation of Ulrich von Türheim and inserts re-encounter episodes the plot between Gottfried and Ulrich.
  • Manuscript S: the presumably Strasbourg copy from 1722 of a manuscript S * from 1489 (creator was a certain Hans Brant). It was made for the bibliophile Frankfurt councilor Zacharias Konrad von Uffenbach by one of his scribes. The original S * was presumably a victim of the fire in the Strasbourg city library in 1870. The manuscript S came to the Hamburg city library (cod. Germ. 12), was in Moscow for a long time after the Second World War, was thought to be lost and returned to Hamburg in 1990. In the past, S * was usually referred to as the copy and S as the original. Some excerpts probably from the older manuscript S * have come down to us in G. Scherz, JJ Oberlin Glossarium Germanicum Medii Aevi (Strasbourg 1781 to 1784).

In both cases the handwriting tradition is related to the Tristan manuscript by Gottfried.

content

The poem continues the unfinished Tristan von Gottfried with a happy ending. It starts with a festival at King Arthur's court in Karidol, organized by Ginevra and other women at the court. Tristan hesitates whether he should travel to the court festival with his wife Isolde (Ysot) Weißhand or with Isolde (Ysot). In the end he travels with his wife, but fears Isolde's angry reaction when they meet. Then he draws up a plan of deception. Tristan finds an unknown dead knight in a meadow and has him pretended to be his own corpse. He describes himself as his murderer and enters a monastery ostensibly out of repentance. Through Kurneval he has his death announced at the court of Arthur and his alleged corpse transferred to Cornwall at the court of Marke, where Isolde is also. He himself accompanies the corpse incognito as a monk and resumes his love affair with Isolde in Cornwall. After a while he leaves Cornwall and Isolde again because he is afraid of being discovered. After returning to Parmenie , he gave up his life as a monk.

The disguise as a monk does not appear in other Tristan versions (like some other motifs), but other disguise scenes do.

There were also sequels to Gottfried von Ulrich von Türheim (around 1230/1235) and Heinrich von Freiberg (around 1290), both with the well-known tragic outcome.

expenditure

  • Tristan as a monk. Investigations and critical edition by Betty C. Bushey, Göppingen, Kümmerle (Göppinger Papers on German Studies 119), 1974
  • Tristan as a monk. Middle High German / New High German. Edited by Albrecht Classen , Greifswald, Reineke (Wodan 50; Series 1: Texts of the Middle Ages 12; Greifswald Contributions to the Middle Ages 35), 1994
  • H. Paul : Tristan as a monk , session reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Phil.-Hist. Class, year 1895, Munich 1896, issue 3, pp. 317–427, supplement 1896, issue 4, pp. 687–691

literature

  • Peter K. Stein: Tristan , in: Volker Mertens, Ulrich Müller, Epic Materials of the Middle Ages , Stuttgart, Kröner 1984
  • Francis G. Gentry: Tristan als Mönch , in: Norris J. Lacy: The Arturian Encyclopedia , Garland Publ., 1986
  • D. Buschinger: Tristan le Moine , in D. Buschinger (ed.), Tristan et Iseut, Mythe européen et mondial , GAG 474, Göppingen 1987, pp. 75-86
  • William C. McDonald: A Reconsideration of Tristan als Mönch , in: William C. McDonald , Winder McConnel: Fide et amore. A Festschrift for Hugo Bekker on his Sixty-Fifth Birthday , Göppingen 1990 (GAG 526), ​​pp. 235-260
  • William McDonald: The Tristan story in german literature , Lexington 1990, pp. 104-132
  • C. Huber: Tristan als Mönch , in: W. Killy, Literatur-Lexikon , Volume 11, 1991, p. 419f
  • Anna Jungreithmayr: Tristan as a monk. Approaches to an understanding of the text, in: Peter K. Stein (Ed.): Language - Text - History. Contributions to Medieval Studies and German Linguistics from the group of employees 1964–1979 of the Institute for German Studies at the University of Salzburg, Göppingen 1980 (GAG 304). Pp. 409-440
  • Hans-Hugo Steinhoff: Tristan as a monk , author's lexicon , Volume 9, 1995, Sp. 1062-1065
  • Helmut de Boor: The German literature in the late Middle Ages. First part. 1250-1350, 5th edition, Munich 1997
  • Ute Nanz: The Isolde-Weisshand-Gestalten in the change of the Tristan fabric: Figure drawing between reference to original and work concept , Heidelberg, Winter (contributions to older literary history), 2010
  • Peter Strohschneider: Gotfrit sequels. Tristan's end in the 13th century and the possibilities of post-classical epics , German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history, Volume 65, 2017, pp. 70–98

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author's Lexicon , Sp. 1062
  2. ^ In the author's lexicon, Sp. 1062, still listed as a war loss