Heinrich von Morungen
Henry of Morungen († 1220 in Leipzig ) was a minstrel.
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Life
From his songs can hardly open up about his life circumstances. Maybe he was identical with that Hendricus de Morungen which is attested in documents in Thuringia. This Hendricus belonged to the lower chivalry and probably originated from the castle Morungen at Sangerhausen. As a miles emeritus, he referred to " high personal merits" ( alta suae vitae merita ) a pension of his patron, the Marquis of Meissen, Dietrich of the oppressed, which he had in 1213 to override the Leipzig Thomas Monastery. 1217 he then joined the same. According to sources from the 16th century, where he died in 1222 after India trip.
The late Middle Ages knew a ballad of the Noble Moringer that transmits the substance of the return of the -lost husband on Heinrich von Morungen.
Work
Tradition situation
From Morungen 35 Minnelieder are delivered with 115 verses, of which 104 verses in the large collection Manesse ( Manuscript C ). Other verses are found in the manuscripts A ( Small Heidelberg Song handwriting), B ( Weingartner handwriting) and Ca, the so-called " Troßschen fragment" ( a copy of manuscript C).
Translations of the oeuvre of Henry of Morungen are the New High German, among others, Ludwig Tieck (1803 ), Karl Simrock ( 1857), Carl von Kraus ( 1950) and Helmut Tervooren (1975 ) before.
The melodies of the songs have not survived.
Topic
Morungen is a very pictorial poet. Especially the field of gloss ( Sun, Moon, Evening Star, gold, precious stone, mirror ), he often uses for the comparative description of the sung, praised lady.
A major theme in the work of Heinrich von Morungen is the demon of courtly love; the Minne yes experienced partly as magical as sickening, even as a deadly power, but also as a religious and mystical experience.
In form and content of the poems are from the Provençal Trobadordichtung influenced ( dactylic rhythms, frequent Durchreimung ). There are also substantive motives taken from there, such as the otherwise in German minstrelsy rarely occurring motif of the termination of the love-service ( song XXVII, L141, 37: SI me verwunt ). Roots are also in the classical ancient literature ( Ovid ) to find (for example, a reference to the mythological figure of Narcissus, among other things, known from Ovid's Metamorphoses, in song XXXII, L145, 1: I happen as a kindelîne ).
A creation of Morungens is the day song - change ( song XXX, L143, 22: Owe - sol but I iemer mê ).