!!!Spruchdichtung

Epigrammatic Poetry (aphoristic poetry; German: Spruchdichtung), along 
with the  Minnesong the second significant Middle High German lyric 
form (end of 12%%sup th/%  century until mid-14%%sup th/%  century); 
unlike the Minnesong, strictly didactic in character. Strophes are the 
units of form and content, musical and metrical forms are referred to 
as "tones"; strophes with the same tones form larger units which are 
sometimes thematically linked. Epigrammatic Poetry, which at first was 
little developed and generally gnomic, was developed by  Walther von 
der Vogelweide into a prominent means of lyric expression to comment 
on political, religious, art-related and "personal" issues. 
Consequently, in the 14%%sup th/%  century, it constituted a 
transitional genre to the  Meistersang. Other important Austrian 
epigrammatists of the 13%%sup th/%  century were Brother  Wernher,  
Reinmar von Zweter, the Marner and  Friedrich von Sonnenburg.

!Literature
H. Moser, Mittelhochdeutsche Spruchdichtung, 1972; U. 
Mueller, Untersuchungen zur politischen Lyrik des deutschen 
Mittelalters, 1974; H. Brunner, Die alten Meister, 1975; J. Bumke, 
Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im hohen Mittelalter, 1990.


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