biography
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Kürenberg, Der von
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also known as Der Kürenberger
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pronunciation:
[kürenberg]
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| male
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| lived:
| (fl.c.1150–70)
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| biography:
| Poet, a knight probably from the area of Linz, active in the Danube region. Although not influenced by the western Minnesang of the French troubadours and trouvères, he is considered the first actual German Minnesänger to be known by name. His love songs are not courtly, in that they are directed not at an unattainable frouwe, but at a woman who may hear the lover's complaint. The knight and his lady are equal partners, and the latter sometimes pursues the man or bewails his absence. The 15 surviving short songs employ a form of Nibelungenstrophe peculiar to the poet, and are marked by assonance. |
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