Erec

The Erec is a Middle High German narrative poem by Hartmann von Aue and was built around 1180 / 90th He is considered the first Arthurian romance in German language and is an adaptation of the Old French Erec et Enide by Chrétien de Troyes. The only nearly complete version of the Erec is preserved in the Ambras Book of Heroes, which was not depreciated until around 1510 for Emperor Maximilian I..

There are also short fragments of a clearly different and possibly older translation from the French, following the presentation considerably more accurate. For the freer machining Hartmanns Chrétien may not have been the only source ( perhaps the Norwegian Erex saga ). The beginning of the seal is delivered either in the fragments still in Ambras Book of Heroes.

Hartmann's work time is about scheduled 1180-1205. The Erec has to be considered on the basis of stylistic observations as the first of his novels, the then Gregorius, The poor and Heinrich Hartmann's second Arthurian romance Iwein followed.

Thematically, the Arthurian romance, to be allocated by the embossed by Jean Bodel term Matière de Bretagne.

Content

Erec, a young and inexperienced knight at King Arthur, son of King Lac Hof is dishonored in the eyes of the Queen of the dwarf of a wandering knight by a blow. Without further ado and equipment Erec takes up the chase and reach the castle of the Duke Tulmein IMEIN. Looking for a place to stay Erec comes to the impoverished nobleman Koralus. From this he learns of the impending battle in Tulmein Sperber and that Iders, the knight, the dwarf Erec has humiliated already won the brilliancy prize for his girlfriend twice in a row. Erec decides to participate at the tournament. He promises Koralus to marry his daughter Enite if she should accompany him to Sperber fight. Erec wins the tournament and the hand Enites. The wedding will be held at Arthur's court.

Then he moved with Enite after Karnant, his father's farm ( the favor Erec's dispense with the rule ). There Erec neglects his ruler duties, because he spends the day out of love for Enite in bed with her ( in the literature this offense Erec is usually referred to as verligen, a term which he is sô even taken Verlac immediately verse 2971 unc daz ). When he learns by Enite that he has become the laughing stock of the farm, he decides to secretly leave the farm and seek Aventiure. Enite, he forbids to speak at death penalty must accompany him. When this warning him against his command of approaching predators, he treats her like a servant from now: you must eventually lead eight horses that Erec has wrested attackers. She then once again break the speech ban is not canceled explicitly by Erec until the end. It is a series of adventures (in duplicate Aventiure - ranking: first he fights against unhöfische robbers, then for Enite against a nameless Count, the fight against the king Guivreiz finished the first Aventiure series After the intermediate stop at Arthur's court and short rest. begins the second Aventiure series: He saves a nobleman before unhöfischen two giants, defended his wife against Count Oringles and finally fighting again against the king Guivreiz ). In the last Adventure - In court joy ( joie de la curt ) fights Erec against the gigantic Mabonagrain which is against forced because of a promise to his girlfriend, to expel invaders from their common Baumgarten. In the course of Aventiure ride, Erec has - recognized the right balance between love and domination, an insight that he can finally pass on to the defeated Mabonagrain - mainly because Enites faithful perseverance. Finally, return Erec and Enite back to Karnant where they live henceforth as a model ruler pair. ( 10135 verses plus 57 verses, which are inserted after verse 4629 )

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French Arthurian romances - Chrétien de Troyes

Chrétien de Troyes set with his work in the 12th century a new standard for courtly narrative. His Erec et Enide ( approximately 1170, the first large-scale Arthurian romances in literary history ) forms according to the current state of research is the only template for Hartmann von Aue. The Erec is again the first Arthurian romance in German literature, that represents an adaptation of Chrétien's work represents the significant differences in content compared to the original French hang well together with the use of the oral tradition or with conscious shifts in emphasis Hartmanns. An influence other written sources ( Mabinogion, Nordic Erex saga ) appears, however, unlikely.

Tradition

From Erec are surprisingly few get textual witnesses: Only a nearly complete manuscript in südbairischer writing language but from the 16th century has been preserved ( Ambras Book of Heroes, Vienna Cod Ser nova 2663. ). In addition are three fragments from the 13th and 14th centuries known, a double sheet from the first half of the 13th century. rheinfränkischem in Middle High German, which is now in Koblenz, two medium- German double sheets of approx 1250-75 in Wolfenbüttel and a Bavarian- Austrian -authored journal in St. Pölten from the late 14th century. That is not the effect that must have had the text and is probably also due to the wide geographical and temporal spread of the four tradition carrier. The reasons for the sparse tradition can only speculate.

The Hans Ried and made for the Emperor Maximilian I. Roman copy in the Ambras Book of Heroes ( 1510 ) is missing the prologue, and none of the fragments fills this gap so that we know nothing about the circumstances surrounding the creation of this first German Arthurian romance.

Fragment finds have raised in recent new questions about the history of tradition. The so-called Zwettlerstrasse fragment from the pen Zwettl (Lower Austria ), whose discovery in 2003 as a supposed fragment of the Nibelungenlied from the 12th century went through the international press, turned out to be Erec fragment from the second quarter of the 13th century. The Central German text goes by Hartmann independently on Chrétien's version back and formed a parallel version, which is closer to the French original than the text of the Ambras Book of Heroes. Whether this version which is also referred to as a means German Erec, ever covered the entire novel, remains unclear.

Parts of Wolfenbüttel fragment from the middle or the 3rd quarter of the 13th century on supply are likely the same central German Erec.

Interpretation

The Erec is not without the Hugo Kuhn in 1948 formulated the first time to understand " Doppelwegstruktur ". The individual Aventiuren is not a mere episode ranking, but an arrangement with programmatic statement quality to provide a so-called symbol structure. The two Aventiuresequenzen ( = " duplicate course", Hugo Kuhn ) with the intermediate stop at Arthur's court ( = social position determination ) as well as the final stop and the coronation show Erec's gradual path for prototypical liable knight, his love for Enite and existence as a responsible ruler in accordance has brought (v. 9438: wan bî the liuten is sô guot ).

Text output

  • Erec, edited by Albert Leitz man ( = Old German text library, Volume 39 ), 7th Edition worried by Kurt Gärtner, Tübingen 2006 ISBN 3-484-20139-8 ISBN 3-484-21139-3 and
  • Erec. Middle High German text and translation, edited by Thomas Cramer, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-26017-5
  • Hartmann von Aue. Erec. Middle High German / High German, edited by Volker Mertens, ( = Loeb Classical Library, No. 18530 ), Stuttgart 2008 ISBN 978-3-15-018530-8

Secondary literature

  • Joachim Bumke: The " Erec " Hartmann von Aue. An Introduction, Berlin, New York 2006 ISBN 3-11-018979-8
  • Christoph Corneau and Wilhelm Störmer: Hartmann von Aue. Era - Work - effect ( = workbooks for literary history ), 2 Aufl Munich 1993
  • Brigitte Edrich - Porzberg: studies on tradition and reception of Hartmann's Erec, ( = Göppinger work on German literature; band 557 ), 1994 ISBN 3-87452-797-2 Göppingen
  • Rolf Endres: Studies on the style of Hartmann's Erec, Munich 1961
  • Gudrun Haase: The Germanistic research for Erec Hartmann von Aue, Frankfurt am Main 1988
  • Günter Mecke: Between speech, narrator and narration in Hartmann von Aue " Erec ". Studies of the poet - audience relationship in the epic, Munich 1965
  • Oh Erika: structure and individual scenes in Hartmann von Aue courtly epics " Erec " and " Iwein ", Hamburg 1972
  • Werner Schröder: trials and tribulations around the text of Hartmann's Erec, Stuttgart 1996 ISBN 3-515-06991-7
  • Wolfgang Wetzlmair: On the problem of debt in the " Erec " and " Gregory " Hartmann von Aue, ( = Göppinger work on German literature; band 643 ), 1997 ISBN 3-87452-889-8 Göppingen
  • Peter Wiehl: The speech scene as epic structural element in the Erec and Iwein seals Hartmann von Aue and Chretien de Troyes, ( = Bochum work on language and literature, Volume 10 ), Munich 1974
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