Walther von der Vogelweide
German minstrel singer (c. 1170 – c. 1230)
- Fame58.8
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AustriaA travelling singer in the Holy Roman Empire who wrote love songs and political verse in Middle High German eight centuries ago, and somehow 32 manuscripts survived to carry his work forward — more than almost any medieval German poet.
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Walther von der Vogelweide composed and performed around 1170 to 1230, moving between princely courts with a lute and a sharp pen, particularly the Babenberg court in Vienna. He took the Minnesang tradition — courtly love songs — and pushed it somewhere new, writing not just romance like "Under der linden" but the first political poetry in German: encomium, satire, invective, moralising. Later in life the future Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II gave him a small fief, a rare anchor for a road poet. The Meistersingers who followed treated him as the standard, and his work spread wide: 32 manuscri…
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- Le rossignol et la sirène1999
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