Wolfram von Eschenbach

Wolfram von Eschenbach (born around 1170 in the village of Eschenbach in Bavaria) (death around 1220) was a knight and a German Poète of the Moyen-âge. He is regarded as one of the largest poets epic of his time. Like Minnesinger, he also wrote lyric poetry.

One does not know large-thing of the Wolfram life, if not what one can deduce from his works. What one can conclude by considering his name is that it was born in Eschenbach (now called Wolframs-Eschenbach) in Bavaria, close to Ansbach. Moreover, one knows that it followed a certain number of courses in its life.

Today, Wolfram is above all known for its Parzival , which one sometimes regards as largest of all the German epopee S of this time. Based on Christian Perceval of of Troyes, it is the first German work in whose subject is the Saint Graal.

In the Poetry, Wolfram expresses scorn for the unfinished version of Christian of Troyes, and declares that its source was a poet called Kyot which lived in Provence. Some specialists believe that Wolfram referred to Guiot de Provins. However, none last work on its life is connected to the topics of Perceval. However, others believe that Kyot was simply a literary device invented by Wolfram to explain its deviations of the version of Christian of Troyes. Its version of the search of the Graal, Parzival , then its Titurel gives to the myth a esoteric sonority much more marked than at Chrétien of Troyes: Graal is kept by Templiers, and it is reserved for some “elected officials” to approach some, elected dependant by… a common line. Many a secret societies of the 19th century was inspired or was influenced by this idea.

The Parzival of Wolfram was the primary source of Richard Wagner when it designed the booklet of its opera, Parsifal . Wolfram itself seems character in Tannhäuser , another opera of Wagner.

Works

  • Parzival
    • Editions Sapwood Montaigne, Paris 1977 - translation of Ernest Tonnelat
    • French Anthroposophiques Editions, Geneva 2004 - translation of Alphonse Grandmont
  • Willehalm , not translated

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