Project Details
Projekt
Songbook of Clara Hätzlerin ( New Edition)
Subject Area
German Medieval Studies (Medieval German Literature)
Term
from 2009 to 2015
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 139263170
The so-called Songbook of Clara Hätzlerin handed down to one of the most important and most extensive collections of texts of the late Middle Ages, containing love-poetry, found in both the secular love songs and love speeches. Besides anonymous authors well-known names such as Konrad von Würzburg, Oswald von Wolkenstein and Hermann von Sachsenheim are also represented. This literary copy of an antecedent text collection was done by Clara Hätzlerin in the second half of the 15th century for some patricians of Augsburg. From this collection of texts is believed to represent the type of reception of love poetry between the traditional Minnesang of the 12th and 13th century and the songbooks which were predominating during the 15th and 16th century; a rich tradition of literary history points out to the enormous importance of this literary collection well beyond the southern region of Germany. The first attempt to edit the songbook of Clara Hätzlerin by Carl Haltaus in 1840 was unconvincing because he split up the coherent text collection and neglected other manuscripts which were linked to it; that kind of practice doesnt fulfill modern-day research any longer. Therefore it is asked emphatically for a new edition. The aim of this project is to reedit the Songbook of Clara Hätzlerin by making full use of all known manuscripts.
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