Konrad Fleck

Conrad Fleck was a writing in Alemannic dialect poet of the Middle Ages; about his life little is known. Rudolf von Ems mentioned him in his written around 1235 novel " Willehalm of Orlens " as the deceased poet. Conrad Fleck came from Alsace or from the region around Basel.

He wrote after Rudolf von Ems the 8,006 verses of the poem " Flore and Blanscheflur " that arose about 1220. The work survives in four manuscripts, of which the two late, coming from the workshop of Diebold Lauber manuscripts are complete. Rudolf von Ems names Conrad Fleck is also the author of " Clie " (see Chrétien de Troyes Cliges ), this work has been lost.

Konrad admits to have written his " Flore and Blanscheflur " after a French original, which he attributes to a Ruopreht of Orbent ( " DC has Ruopreht / getihtet of Orbênt in welschen / with rîmen ungevelschen / I of Han in tiuschen sake," v .142-145 ). Among the two remaining old French workings of the " Floire et Blanche ," the man in the research different than " version populaire " and " version aristocratique " corresponds to its processing largely the latter, which is instead of fighting and adventure at the heart of the Minne.

History of substance

The old French fabric has been treated in German previously in a fragmentary and anonymous translation in 1170 ( " Trier Floyris "). In the aftermath of Konrad Fleck, but independent of it, arose a Dutch adaptation of " Diederic of Assenede " ( " Floris end Blanceflor "), a Low German ( " Van fin un Blank fin" ) and adaptations in English, Danish and Swedish. With respect to the European tradition of the substance was then the Italian adaptation in Boccaccio's novel " Filocolo " on the public books or prose versions in French ( 1485 ), German ( 1499 ) and Spanish ( 1512) and the comedy " Florio, the king's son " ( 1545 ) by Hans Sachs go back.