Albrecht von Scharfenberg

Albrecht (formerly presumed to be called by Scharfenberg ) (* 1270 ) was a Middle High German poet.

Albrecht is the author of the so-called " younger Titurel " (around 1260-75 ), a supplement and continuation of Wolfram von Eschenbach Titurel fragments. The Sangversepos to which a contemporary melody has been handed down, four-line stanzas contains over 6300 in the form of so-called Titurelstrophe. It reinforces in mannerist, many of the typical of his style tungsten model features, such as the dark mystery and almost seemingly abstruse erudition. Apparently because of this " flowered speech" was the work by his contemporaries and even more in subsequent generations in great esteem. Albrecht seals in the mask tungsten. Thus was the "Younger Titurel " to modern times as the work of tungsten and was about the late medieval literature expert Jakob Püterich of Reichartshausen the main from teutschen Buechen ( sum of all German seals). It was only in 5883 verse the author gives to the tungsten mask and reveals himself as to recognize the " Albrecht". 1812 August Wilhelm Schlegel discovered (after the preliminary Bernhard Joseph docens that this in the article " Titurel missive " made ​​public ) that the "Older Titurel " of tungsten comes from, what his authorship of the younger excluded permanently.

For a long time identified this Albrecht with an otherwise unknown Albrecht von Scharfenberg, of the in Ulrich Füetrers "Book of Adventure " of the 15th century a "Merlin " novel is obtained, which is also written in Titurelstrophen. However, should the shape of the Titurelstrophe in "Merlin " are from Füetrer, and not by Albrecht. Meanwhile, one of which is deviated to see in Albrecht von Scharfenberg the author of the younger Titurel, and calls this research only or also Albrecht Albrecht, author of the recent Titurel.

Expenditure

• The first pressure ( in folio ) is of 1477 (John Mentelin in Strasbourg).
• First scholarly edition by KA Hahn ( Quedlinburg 1842).
• The currently valid edition is by W. Wolf / K. Nyholm ( DTM ), 1955ff.