Wakefulness of Mühlhausen
Wachsmut von Mühlhausen was a German minstrel in the mid-13th century.
Life
The home of Wachsmut von Mühlhausen has not been definitively established. Attempts have been made to assign it to the place Mühlhausen near Stuttgart , as there is evidence of a noble family with this name in the 13th century. However, the Central German peculiarities in the language of the songs contradict an Upper German identification. Moreover, in a Thuringian document from the year 1267 the son of a "Vastmude de Mulhusen" called, and in the years 1297 and 1299, the name "Wachsmut" for two more people, probably relatives of the former, in the Thuringian imperial city of Muehlhausen mentioned in documents . Crucial evidence suggests that the minstrel lived and wrote poetry in Mühlhausen, Thuringia, perhaps as a ministerial in the Reichsburg there.
plant
With one exception, the two-strophic songs Wachsmut should be noted that they are close to the heyday of minstrels. Their balanced structure is characterized by the parallelism and symmetry of the stanzas, by clear verse design and a harmonizing rhyme technique.
literature
- Codex Manesse. The miniatures of the Great Heidelberg Song Manuscript , ed. by Ingo F. Walther, Frankfurt a. M. 1988, ISBN 3458143858 .
- Peter Bühner: Mr. Wachsmut von Mühlhausen - a minstrel from Thuringia . in: Mühlhausen Articles Issue 16, Mühlhausen 1993
- Gert Hübner: Wachsmut von Mühlhausen, in: The German literature of the Middle Ages . Author's Lexicon, ed. by Kurt Ruh et al., Berlin 1999
Song collections
- Codex Manesse. The Great Heidelberg Song Manuscript , sheet 183 a. 184; Codex Palatinus Germanicus 848 of the Heidelberg University Library. Full facsimile in 12 partial deliveries, with interim texts by Ingo F. Walther. Frankfurt a. M. 1975-1988
- The Great Heidelberg Song Manuscript . Edited by Fridrich Pfaff in a true print of the text . Second, improved and supplemented edition edited by Hellmut Salowski. Heidelberg 1984
- Carl von Kraus (Ed.): German song poets of the 13th century , Volume I: Text, Volume II: Commentary, provided by Hugo Kuhn. Second edition Tübingen 1978
- Gerhard Tänzer (ed.): "Frouwe, frouwe, frouwe mîn!" Thuringian Minnelieder . Text, transmission, comment. Bucha near Jena 2005
Web links
- Wachsmut von Mühlhausen in Codex Manesse (cpg 848), digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wakefulness of Mühlhausen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German minstrel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 13th century or 14th century |