biography
pronunciation:
[vikram]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1505–pre 1562)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Colmar, Alsace. An autodidact, the illegitimate son of a municipal official, he founded a school of bourgeois Meistersinger in his home town. As a Protestant he was forced to leave in 1555 for Burgheim, where he became town clerk. In the same year he wrote Das Rollwagenbüchlin, a highpoint of Upper Rhenish farcical tales. He also rewrote Swiss carnival Fastnachtspiele, combining courtly with bourgeois elements. His innovatory prose novels such as Der jungen Knaben Spiegel (1554) and Der Goldfaden (1557) mingled aspects of the Entwicklungsroman with instructive passages, and exerted a distinctive influence on 17th-c bourgeois literature. |
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