ハルトマン・フォン・アウエ

『哀れなハインリヒ』は中世ドイツの詩人ハルトマン・フォン・アウエの代表作。残されているハルトマンの4つの作品のうちではもっとも短いが、日本でも比較的よく知られている。癩病に冒された騎士と、彼を慕い命を奉げようと決意した清純な少女を描いた物語詩。 …

Few stories were as widely known during the Middle Ages as the account of Iwein and Laudine, which appeared in French, Welsh, English, Norse, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, and two German variants. The older German version, that by the Swabian nobleman Hartmann von Aue, won instant popularity and became a model of form, …

As the earliest Arthurian verse-novel in the German language, Hartmann von Aue's Erec was highly influential, not only on the many Arthurian works that followed, but also on courtly narrative verse in general. However, his tale is of more than antiquarian interest. Its subjects—the individual in conflict with society …