Weißkunig
The Weißkunig belongs next to the Theuerdank to the two autobiographical publications Emperor Maximilian I ; In contrast to Theuerdank , the work remained unfinished. Maximilian's secretary, Marx Treitzsaurwein, was the author .
content
The work has three parts, which consist of a mixture of heroic novel , chronicle and prince mirror . In the first part the courtship and coronation of Emperor Frederick III are described. , Maximilian's father. The story then tells of Maximilian's birth, childhood and youth and describes his upbringing and training in noble activities and the free and applied arts. In a third part of his rule and acts of war are reported; the work breaks off with the battle of Vicenza in 1513.
As in Theuerdank , which supplements Weißkunig with the adventurous bridal trip of the young Maximilian, the names are encoded in the story. The Weißkunig alludes to heraldry, Friedrich III. and Maximilian are the "old" and the "young white king".
The work had 251 woodcuts, half of which were by Hans Burgkmair the Elder. Ä. and Leonhard Beck , who also illustrated Theuerdank ; Two woodcuts each are attributed to Hans Schäufelin (also represented in Theuerdank ) and Hans Springinklee . The narration is tailored to the images; towards the end it is reduced to picture titles.
reception
The work was not published and was forgotten in the 16th century. The handwritten version, edited and partly reworked by Treitzsaurwein, came to the Strein von Schwarzenau family in his estate through his daughter ; a publication planned by Richard Strein and later by Georg Christoph von Schallenberg did not materialize. For two hundred years the sticks of the woodblock prints also disappeared; they were rediscovered in the 18th century, so that Maximilians Weißkunig was able to appear in Vienna for the first time in its unfinished form in 1775. The handwritten versions kept in the Austrian National Library in Vienna are as Codd. (Codices) 3032 and 3034 Basis also for the modern editions.
expenditure
- Treitzsaurwein: The Weißkunig. A tale of the deeds of Emperor Maximilian the First . Edition Leipzig 2006 ISBN 3-361-00601-5
literature
- Larry Silver: Marketing Maximilian. The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor . Princeton, NJ; Oxford 2008, here pp. 147 - 168.
- Fritz Funke: Book customer. An overview of the history of books and writing. Verlag Documentation, Munich 1969, p. 105.
- Jan-Dirk Müller: Emperor Maximilian I. In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon. (²VL), Vol. 6, Col. 204-236. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin / New York 1987.
- Jan-Dirk Müller: Marx Treitzsaurwein. In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon. (²VL), Vol. 9, Col. 1028-1032. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Müller (1995) Col. 1029f.