IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 226: Reflection of Crises in the Songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein, 1376-1445
Monday 1 July 2024, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft |
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| Organiser: | Sieglinde Hartmann, Institut für Germanistik, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ingrid Bennewitz, Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Philologie des Mittelalters, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg |
| Paper 226-a | Wolkenstein's Wake-up Calls (Kl. 2 and Kl. 118): Awakening as the First Step out of the Crisis (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German and Music |
| Paper 226-b | Broken Bones and a Broken Heart?: Wolkenstein’s Personal and Legal Crises Reflected in His Songs (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German and Law |
| Paper 226-c | Reflections of the Major Religious Crises in Wolkenstein’s Life and Poetry (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German and Military History |
| Abstract | Oswald von Wolkenstein is considered as one of the foremost poets of the Late Middle Ages, an era of the worst medieval crises. In his songs we find various reflections of the Great Schism, of heretical groups such as the Bohemian Hussites, or of social upheavals for example by the Tyrolean nobility, but the songs have never been investigated under this crucial aspect of his lifetime. Therefore, speaker will discuss characteristic examples of Wolkenstein’s poetry focussing on his involvement in religious crises, in the social crisis of the county of Tyrol, and on the poet’s personal identity crisis. |