Oberon

The figure of the Elven king Oberon ( the Alberich in Germanic mythology as appropriate) for the first time in the French legend Les Prouesses et faitz you classy in the 14th century by Huon de Bordeaux to find that the group of sagas Charles belongs to the Great.

The substance of the poem was later used by many English poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and in Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. Oberon appears as a character in musical theater works by Henry Purcell ( The Fairy Queen) and Benjamin Britten (A Midsummer Night's Dream) On the basis of this play. 1787 newly discovered Uranus moon Oberon was named after the fictional character in Shakespeare's play.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe took the figures from Shakespeare's work in Faust I. Oberon is married to Titania and I fist their golden wedding is described.

Christoph Martin Wieland used in the 18th century, the figure in his romantic epic Oberon, after James Robinson Planché created the libretto for Carl Maria von Weber's opera of the same.

Another well-known author who used the name, Wolfgang hollow leg. In his fantasy series " Anders" the god of the Elder Oberon is called.

The term was derived from the elf king Danish word " ellerkongen ". Johann Wolfgang von Goethe took the elf king as a model for his ballad of the Erlking.

• Legendary figure
• Operatic character