Spielmannsdichtung

The term minstrel seal or Spielmannsepik is a traditional name for a small group of medieval narrative seals. As far as one can date the emergence of the texts at all, they come from the second half of the 12th century.

These are the works:

  • Duke Ernst
  • King Rother
  • Salman and Morolf
  • Orendel
  • King Oswald

Disambiguation

The early German coined the term Spielmannsepik to obtain a category for the five non einsortierbaren into existing organizational principles long texts. From the burleskeren and less intellectual taste, these adventure stories should have compared to the courtly romance, it was concluded that they of wandering minstrels (see Travelling people, Vagantendichtung ) have been created. Both the choice of materials as well as the actual text design can recognize neither an alleged connection still correspond to the assumed criteria. The term Spielmannsepik is therefore no longer scientifically tenable and rather corresponds to a flavor classification of the German literature of the 19th century, the courtly novels translated as a benchmark.

It is now believed with more law, the poet in a similar writing and literature expert circle as well as the poets of the frühhöfischen literature. The contestable term " Spielmannsepik " is still used, however, must not be understood literally.

Genus Hallmarks

Characteristic of all these stories is the mixing heroic, historical and legendary, rough and courtly trains. Popular fairy tales and legends motifs ( courtship, kidnapping, lining) are arranged with a passion for exotic (oriental adventures ) and often dramatic comedy. This, the anonymity of the authors and the narrow written proliferation signal that it has traded at more entertaining and less representative reading materials for a less educated aristocratic audience.

To justify the genus Spielmann seal regardless of the dubious concept of the game man, different criteria have been proposed to combine the works so designated:

  • Development time towards the end of the 12th century
  • Entertainment claim on the basis of historical events, people, etc.
  • Anonymity of the genus, the authors are not usually known
  • Preferred motifs ( alienation, abduction )
  • Mixing courtly, legendary, historical and heroic elements, also often fairy tales and legends motives
  • Metric and rhyme be handled more freely, verses of different lengths, irregular rhythm
  • Cumbersome, figurative language
  • Frequent repetition of individual turns
  • Few and simple linguistic- stylistic means

These criteria are a controversial issue in the research, as they are designed to summarize the five epics under one term. Critics therefore reject both the term Spielmannsepik as well as a special genre for the five epics. They emphasize strong differences in the works that could unify hardly. In the absence of other categorization is called usually "so-called Spielmannsepen " of the use or quotation marks to express a distance to the term.

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