biography
pronunciation:
[hah(r)tman fon ow
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1165–c.1210/15)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Swabia, Germany. He was probably in the service of the Herren (Lords) von Aue; an influential patron (presumed to be Berthold V of Burgundy) died in 1195. Some years before or after that date, Hartmann took part in the Crusades, which inspired his Kreuzlieder, which contain a renunciation of his amorous ‘Minnelieder’ of the 1180s (cf. his Büchlein of c.1180, a dispute between body and heart). He is viewed as one of the three great epic poets of the German Middle Ages (with Wolfram von Eschenbach and Gottfried von Straßburg). His translations into Middle High German of the French Arthurian epics Erec (1180–5) and Iwein (c.1202) initiated the German courtly novel, with its socio-critical features. He also wrote the spiritual ‘Legenden’' Gregorius (c.1187–9) and Der arme Heinrich (c.1195). |
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