Death and the Maiden (motif)

Death and the Maiden is a subject of fine arts, literature and music, which was already during the Renaissance in Niklaus Manuel (1484-1530) and Hans Baldung Grien (1484-1545) finds and especially in the 19th century again was taken up. In the tradition of the motif of death occurs as a seducer or even lovers of the young woman.

Examples for use are (in order of Year ):

• Painting The Death and the Maiden by Hans Baldung Grien ( 1517)
• The poem Death and the Maiden, by Matthias Claudius ( 1775)
• This builds on it art song Death and the Maiden by Franz Schubert ( 1817)
• The String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810 Death and the Maiden by Franz Schubert ( 1824). It is named after the quartet the theme of the second movement, which dates from the art song composed by Schubert. The string quartet by Schubert is mentioned in Martin Walser's novel surf as a kind of leitmotif. A modern interpretation (2007) of the subject of Franz Schubert comes from the music project Bacio di Tosca.
• Painting The Death and the Maiden by Adolf Hering (1900)
• Painting Death and the Maiden by Egon Schiele (1915 )
• Silent film Death and the Maiden ( 1916)
• The novella Death and the Maiden by Theodor Haering (1943 )
• La jeune fille et novella la mort by Michel Tournier (1988 )
• Play Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman (1991 ), a film by Roman Polanski, under the same title (1994 )
• Play princesses dramas. Death and the Maiden I- V by Elfriede Jelinek
• Comic The Death and the Maiden by Nina Ruzicka