Ulrich Fuetrer

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Ulrich Füetrer (also Füterer ; * before 1450 in Landshut ; † between 1493 and 1502 in Munich ) was a German poet and painter.

Life

Füetrer, originally probably Furtter, was born around 1430 in the Lower Bavarian capital in Landshut, where he presumably attended Latin school. Since 1453 and 1460 he can be traced back as a painter in Munich, where he worked a lot for the local ducal court of the Upper Bavarian line of the Wittelsbach family. a. for the dukes Albrecht III. and for his sons Siegmund and Albrecht IV. Füetrer is named from 1460 to 1494 as a “four” of the united guilds of “painters, Seidenater and Glaser”. He was last mentioned in the Munich tax books in 1496. In 1496 his wife was expelled from Munich.

Since the 1460s Ulrich Füetrer belonged in Munich to scholarly and art-interested circles, including those connected with early humanism , to which Jakob Püterich von Reichertshausen , Johannes Hartlieb and Hans Heselloher belonged.

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Book of Adventure

History from Mr. Flordimar , Badische Landesbibliothek, Codex Donaueschingen 140

The book of adventures , which he wrote between 1473 and 1487 on behalf of Albrecht IV of Bavaria , is considered to be Füetrer's main work . The work comprises around 41,500 verses in the stanza form of the Younger Titurel Albrechts .

It begins with the story of the Grail family, with Füetrer based on the events described in the Younger Titurel . This is followed by the Trojan War , which establishes a connection between the sex of the Trojans and the British. Brutus, here a descendant of Aeneas , belongs to the Trojans and finally founds Britain , which is named after him. This story is based on the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth ( Historia Regum Britanniae ) and Wace (Roman de Brut). The story of Merlin follows the Trojan War , for which no German sources are known in research . Research assumes that there was a German novel about Merlin, which is lost today, however, Füetrer himself names an Albrecht von Scharfenberg as the source of his account. Füetrer also established a genealogy between the individual characters in the Arthurian world by making Merlin Arthur's grandfather in his book of adventures.

Then Füetrer turned to the story of Gahmuret and his journey to the Orient, prefacing the prologue of the Parzival . The Gahmuret episode is followed by the story of Tschionachtolander (Schionatulander), in which the events known from the Younger Titurel are reported. This is followed by the well-known events from Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival. However, Füetrer adds a few verses to this story by taking Heinrich von dem Türlin's Diu Crône as a template for the Gawein episodes and inserting them into the Aventiuren Gaweins known from the Parzival . The first book of the Book of Adventures ends with a description of the adventures of Parzival's son Lohargrim, which explains, among other things, what happens to the Grail . The first book ends with an homage to Albrecht IV of Bavaria.

The second part of the book of adventures , called Das annder púech, deals with the history of Iban, with Füetrer exclusively using Hartmann von Aue Iwein's or these and secondary sources as a template, depending on the research opinion , and with other novels, largely unknown in research, which the Aventiuren various Ritter describe (Wigoleis, Seifrid de Ardemont , Melerans, Iban, Persibein, Poytislier and Flordimar ).

The third and last part of the book of adventures is devoted to the story of Lannzilet .

The interpretation of this work has changed significantly recently. While it used to be assigned to a phenomenon called knight renaissance (knight romance), with the nostalgic, backward-looking and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to revive medieval chivalry in mind, one now sees more the modern aspects, which, like in early humanist positions of the time, were the ones that promoted knowledge Address and propagate the role of conversation and the reflection of historical and poetic distance. From this perspective, Füetrer also becomes an early representative of the Renaissance as an intellectual and cultural movement in Germany, which was initially a phenomenon of small, often courtly elites.

Bavarian Chronicle

Füetrer wrote an extensive Bavarian Chronicle between 1478 and 1481 , in which a continuous line of rulers in Bavaria since Roman times was constructed in a novel way, which ran towards the ruling Duke of Upper Bavaria. This corresponded to the efforts of the court in Munich to restore the unity of the then divided Bavarian duchy. The text has survived in 13 complete manuscripts in slightly different versions: SLUB Dresden, Mscr. P 47 (digitized version); UB Leipzig Rep. IV. 6; Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , Cgm 43, 225, 227, 565, 566, 699, 1590 and 1591; Munich, Secret House Archive, Hs. 31; Landesarchiv Linz, Schlüsselberger Archive, Hs. 192; Überlingen, Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek, Hs. 192.

Lancelot as a prose novel

A prose novel about Lanzelot is preserved in three manuscripts: Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe, Cod. Donaueschingen 141 and 142, as well as Munich, Staatsbibl., Cgm 573.

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literature

  • Karl Bartsch :  Füetrer, Ulrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 271.
  • Peter Schmidt: Successes of rulers in the concert of the media. Genealogy as a new task for vernacular manuscripts in the 15th century. In: Under pressure. Central European illumination in the 15th century. Proceedings of the international colloquium in Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 13.1. – 17.1.2016. Petersberg 2018, pp. 246–261 (especially on the Leipzig manuscript of the Bavarian Chronicle)
  • Bernd Bastert: The Münchner Hof and Fuetrer's "Book of Adventure". Literary continuity in the late Middle Ages. Lang, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-631-45615-8 .
  • Peter Strohschneider: Romantic knight verse in the late Middle Ages. Studies on a functional historical text interpretation of the "Mörin" Hermann von Sachsenheim as well as Ulrich Fuetrer's "Persibein" and Maximilian's L "Teuerdank ". Frankfurt / Main, Bern, New York 1986.
  • Stefan Dicker: Country awareness and current affairs. Studies on the Bavarian chronicle of the 15th century . Böhlau, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20103-6 , pp. 112-133 .
  • Volker Mertens: The German Arthurian novel. Reclam, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3-15-017609-2 .
  • Hellmut Rosenfeld: The Munich painter and poet Ulrich Fuetrer (1430-1496) in his time and his name (actually "Furtter"). In: Upper Bavarian Archive. Volume 90, 1968, pp. 128-140.
  • Hans Rupprich:  Füetrer, Ulrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 685 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Alice Carlsson: Ulrich Füetrer and his Iban. Riga 1927.
  • Rudolf Zenker: Ivain Studies. Niemeyer, Halle a. S. 1921 (= research on Arthurian epic 1 and at the same time journal for Romance philology, supplements 70).

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Remarks

  1. ^ Dietrich Huschenbett 1978 (2010): Albrecht von Scharfenberg , VL 2 , Volume 1, Sp. 201.
  2. ↑ See Hartmann von Aue: Iwein. Text of the 7th edition by GF Benecke, K. Lachmann and L. Wolff. Translation and comments by Thomas Cramer. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. De Gruyter. Berlin, New York 1974, p. 160.
  3. ↑ Cf. Alice Carlsson: Ulrich Füetrer and his Iban. Riga 1927.
  4. ↑ See Rudolf Zenker: Ivain Studies. Niemeyer, Halle an der Saale 1921.
  5. ↑ Main tradition in cgm 1 and Cod. Vindob. 3037 and 3038 (originally a volume), also cgm 247, Vindob. 2888, Cod.Donaueschingen 140.
  6. ↑ Eg Strohschneider 1986. Agreeing: Jan-Dirk Müller, review of: Peter Strohschneider, Ritterromantische Versepik in the end of the Middle Ages. In: IASL 14 (1989), pp. 87-92.
  7. ↑ digitized version
personal data
SURNAME Füetrer, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Füterer, Ulrich; Fuetrer, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and painter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1450
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut
DATE OF DEATH between 1493 and 1502
Place of death Munich