Hadamar III of Laber

Hadamar Laber (* 1300, † 1360 ) was a didactic poet of the family of the lords of Laaber with headquarters at Burg Laaber in today's Upper Palatinate. In the conflicts between the Emperor and the papacy he belongs with his brother to the partisans of Ludwig of Bavaria. A friendly relationship Hadamar connects to the son of the emperor, the Margrave Ludwig of Brandenburg. This appointed him in 1354 to the Council of the Empire.

Hadamar wrote a Minneallegorie ( The Hunt The Minne or hunting) in Titurelstrophen. The male I pursued as a hunter a noble stag, allegorically represents the woman with a pack of dogs. The lead dog is his own heart, the other dogs are allegorical for properties of the hunter as " loyalty ", " courage ", " will power", etc. Since the poem is a relationship of the Hohe Minne, but the game should not be killed - ie no love union to take place - rather, the hunter must with his old dog " persevering" continue to hunt in the afterlife. Interestingly, the text is mainly due to the model of a " Handlungsallegorie " in which the various aspects of courtly love relationship are represented psychologically differentiated. The various actions of the dogs the central concepts of the Hohe Minne be correlated with each other, limited in their validity or explained.

The text is relatively rich handed, but in its text form in the various manuscripts very inconsistent, less in terms of the readings of the text as regards the different verse consequences. This is mainly due to the lack of disaster overarching coherence. Because a " Handlungsallegorie " in the sense that an epic hunting action is developed that Jad is not, but it is more of an allegorical Minne reflections. The text by Johann Andreas Schmeller (Stuttgart 1850), is located at the Erlanger handwriting ( verse sequence) or of Vienna's oldest manuscript ( text layout) was edited oriented and Karl Stejskal (Vienna 1880), of a critical edition based on today obsolete stemmatischer has created considerations. A modern edition central passages found in Steckelberg. A reception of some of his work by, inter alia, Clemencic and Eberhard Kummer was published in 2006.