Ulrich von dem Türlin

Excerpt from Ulrich's Arabel from the Türlin

Ulrich von dem Türlin († around 1269 ) was a Middle High German epic . His main work is the epic Arabel , the prehistory of Wolfram von Eschenbach's epic Willehalm . No other works have survived.

Act

Little is known about the life of Ulrich von dem Türlin. He probably comes from St. Veit in Carinthia . Since Heinrich von dem Türlin also came from this region, it is assumed that the two poets are related. Ulrich came to the court of Ottokar II of Bohemia , where he continued the Willehalm epic in the 1260s . He devoted himself to Willehalm's prehistory without relying on the French-language templates used by Wolfram. Ulrich tells the story of Willehalm from his childhood and youth, his imprisonment, the love for Arabel, their baptism and the couple's wedding. In doing so, he largely processed the allusions that Wolfram had made in his verse epic. Ulrich originally called his work Willehalm , but the epic has only been called Arabel since the end of the 20th century .

reception

Ulrichs Arabel sees itself as a complement to Wolfram's main work. However, he lacks that claim, rather the work corresponds in its conventionality to the zeitgeist of the 13th century, was therefore gratefully received by the public and ensured the author the reputation associated with the name Wolframs. Samuel Singer , who published a version under the title Willehalm in 1893 , described Ulrich as not “untalented”, but who had lost all originality through the slavish imitation of Wolfram.

expenditure

Willehalm: A knight poem from the second half of the thirteenth century. Published by Samuel Singer, Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia, 1893.
Ulrich von dem Türlin, Arabel. The original version. Critically edited by Werner Schröder, Hirzel, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1999.

Web links

Commons : Ulrich von dem Türlin - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Ulrich von dem Türlin in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Ulrich von dem Türlin in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Samuel Singer: Türlin, Ulrich von dem . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 21 f.
Willehalm Code. Digitized, complete Willehalm trilogy from 1334: the Willehalm Wolframs von Eschenbach , the Rennewart Ulrichs von Türheim (continuation of the Willehalm ) and the Arabel Ulrichs von dem Türlin (prehistory of the Willehalm ) in the online archive ORKA of the Kassel University Library.

Individual evidence

^ John Greenfield, Lydia Miklautsch: The "Willehalm" Wolframs von Eschenbach: An introduction . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin, New York 1998, ISBN 978-3-11-014479-6 , pp. 278 .
↑ Jürgen Wolf: Wolframs 'Willehalm' between court literature and memorial culture . In: Ulrich Ernst, Klaus Ridder (ed.): Art and memory. Memorial concepts in narrative literature of the Middle Ages . Böhlau Verlag , Cologne, Weimar 2003, ISBN 978-3-412-09902-2 , pp. 223, 244 .
↑ Samuel Singer: Türlin, Ulrich von dem . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 21 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Ulrich von dem Türlin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Middle High German epic
DATE OF BIRTH	12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH	around 1269

[1] John Greenfield, Lydia Miklautsch: The "Willehalm" Wolframs von Eschenbach: An introduction . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin, New York 1998, ISBN 978-3-11-014479-6 , pp. 278 .

[2] Jürgen Wolf: Wolframs 'Willehalm' between court literature and memorial culture . In: Ulrich Ernst, Klaus Ridder (ed.): Art and memory. Memorial concepts in narrative literature of the Middle Ages . Böhlau Verlag , Cologne, Weimar 2003, ISBN 978-3-412-09902-2 , pp. 223, 244 .

[3] Samuel Singer: Türlin, Ulrich von dem . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 21 f.