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Walther von der Vogelweide was a Minnesänger who composed and performed love-songs and political songs (Sprüche) in Middle High German. Walther has been described as the greatest German lyrical poet before Goethe; his hundred or so love-songs are widely regarded as the pinnacle of Minnesang, the medieval German courtly love song tradition, and his innovations breathed new life into this genre. He…
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culture · German minstrel singer (c. 1170 – c. 1230) · composer · poet · Minnesänger · singer · playwright · writer · also Walther von der Vogelweide, Vogelweide
Born 1 January 1170 · Died 1 January 1230 · Q44385
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Walter Klomfar and the librarian Charlotte Ziegler came to the conclusion that Walther might have been born in the Waldviertel
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The Galleria Lia Rumma in Naples exhibited a series of works by Anselm Kiefer (two large paintings and a group of books) relating to "Under der linden" under the title Walther von der Vogelweide für Lia
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Walter Klomfar and the librarian Charlotte Ziegler came to the conclusion that Walther might have been born in the Waldviertel
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And 1981 by Bernd Thum (University Karlsruhe, Germany), which makes an origin in the Waldviertel very plausible
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The German poet Peter Rühmkorf published Walther von der Vogelweide, Klopstock und ich, in which he provided modernised and colloquial verse translations of 34 songs by Walther, accompanied by commentary
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Helmut Hörner identified a farmhouse mentioned in 1556 as Vogelweidhof in the urbarium of the domain Rappottenstein
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By Alois Plesser, who also did not know its precise location
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A statue of Walther was unveiled in a square in Bolzano (see above), which was subsequently renamed the Walther von der Vogelweide-Platz
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A new monument was erected over the spot, called the Lusamgärtchen (Little Lusam Garden), today sheltered by the two major churches of the city
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Died 1230-01-01.
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Born 1170-01-01.
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