Ulrich von Türheim

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Ulrich von Türheim in a representation from 1387 in a Rennewart manuscript
Monument to Ulrich von Türheim in Unterthürheim

Ulrich von Türheim (* around 1195; † around 1250) was a German poet of the Middle Ages and wrote in Middle High German . In the documents of the bishop and the cathedral chapter of Augsburg , an Ulrich von Türheim is mentioned for the years 1236 and 1244, in whom one suspects the poet. He named himself after the place Thürheim .

Works

He is best known as the continuation of Tristan Gottfried von Strasbourg . Ulrich, who probably wrote this work before 1243, did not stick to Gottfried's French model. Instead applies in research generally the Tristrant of Eilhart of Oberge as a source of continuing, although significant discrepancies would have to make that assumption into question in the arrangement of individual episodes.

He had dedicated the Tristan to the imperial tavern Konrad von Winterstetten († 1243). He also laments Konrad's death in the race attendant .

His second work is the Rennewart , a continuation of the Willehalm Wolfram von Eschenbach . It ties in with the point when the Christians defeat the Gentiles in the second battle of Alishanz and continues the story.

Ulrich probably knew the French epic cycle around Guillaume d'Orange very well, because he mainly used the epics La bataille Loquifer , Le moniage Rainouart and Le moniage Guillaume . Since he stuck to his templates very closely at the beginning, but later had very free access to the material, it is doubtful that he worked continuously from a template.

The Augsburg citizen Otto der Bogner , who is mentioned in documents from 1237 to 1246, made the French sources available to Ulrich. Ulrich probably completed the work around 1250; the large number of surviving manuscripts suggests that the text was widely used.

Rudolf von Ems mentions Ulrich von Türheim as a poet of Cligès in his Wilhelm von Orlens . This work has only survived in fragments and no author is named. If one can believe Rudolf, who undoubtedly was personally acquainted with Ulrich, Cligès should be named Ulrich's third work.

Client and benefactor

The clients Ulrich von Türheim and Rudolf von Ems are probably to be found in the Swabian court circle around Heinrich VII. And Konrad IV . Since Ulrich von Türheim laments the deaths of Heinrich VII., Konrad von Winterstetten and the Lords von Neifen, one can assume that the Tristan continuation and the Rennewart were written for the Hohenstaufen court circle , with which Otto der Bogner was also associated.

literature

Tristan

  • Thomas Kerth: Ulrich von Türheim. Tristan , Tübingen 1979 (= Altdeutsche Textbibliothek 89) ISBN 3-484-20106-1 (text edition)
  • Joachim Bumke : History of German Literature in the High Middle Ages , Munich 1990, page 193f. ISBN 3-423-04552-3
  • Klaus Grubmüller: Problems of a sequel. Comments on Ulrichs von Türheim Tristan-Schluß , in: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 114/1985, pages 338–348
  • Alan Deighton: The sources of the Tristan sequels Ulrichs von Türheim and Heinrichs von Freiberg , in: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 126/1997, page 141-165

Rennewart

  • Alfred Huebner: Ulrich von Türheim. Rennewart , Berlin 1938 (= German texts of the Middle Ages 39) (text edition)
  • Joachim Bumke: History of German Literature in the High Middle Ages , Munich 1990, page 258f. ISBN 3-423-04552-3
  • Wolfgang Müller: Ulrich von Türheim's worldview. Depicted using the terms minne, êre, hôher muot, work, triwe, mâze, milte, virtue, saelde, sünde and the image of women and compared with predecessors, contemporaries and successors , dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin 1957
  • Christa Westphal-Schmidt: Studies for Rennewart Ulrichs von Türheim , Frankfurt am Main 1979 ISBN 3-88129-234-9

Cligès

  • A. Bachmann: Fragments of a Middle High German Cligès. In: Journal for German Antiquity. Volume 32, 1888, pp. 123 ff.
  • András Vizkelety: New Fragments of Middle High German Cligès. In: Journal for German Philology. Volume 88, 1969, p. 409 ff.

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SURNAME Ulrich von Türheim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet of the Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH around 1195
DATE OF DEATH around 1250